Six children die in a house fire in Derby, and the man who tried to pull them from the flames, their father Mick Philpott, is treated by the press as a grieving hero. Panorama's reporters go back through the case files, interviews, and courtroom testimony that later unravelled that story, tracing how police and forensic investigators came to conclude the fire was set deliberately. The film follows the Philpott household's dynamics, a blended family under Mick's control involving his wife Mairead and mistress Lisa Willis, and lays out the financial and custodial motives prosecutors argued lay behind the blaze. Interviews with people who knew the family and those close to the investigation trace how suspicion shifted from tragic accident to premeditated act, ending in Philpott's conviction for the murders of his own children. Panorama keeps its focus on the evidence trail rather than speculation, showing how a case that looked like a house fire gone wrong became one of the most notorious murder convictions in recent British history.