Viktor Yanukovych's government is collapsing when a VICE News crew reaches Kiev in February 2014, one day after clashes outside the Rada, Ukraine's parliament, leave close to thirty police and protesters dead in fighting where both sides used firearms openly for the first time. The film picks up the story from there, with cameras inside Independence Square, the protesters' last stronghold, where fires still burn and a fragile overnight truce is already fraying. Footage follows the escalation of February 20, when police snipers fire into the crowd and killing continues in the square, through Yanukovych's flight from his private estate, leaving behind documents linking him to fraud and corruption. The crew documents the protesters taking control of parliament and the formation of an interim government of opposition MPs, with presidential elections set for May 25. Closing scenes register the costs still unfolding: a collapsing economy, Russia's annexation of Crimea, and armed separatists in the east. The film's ground-level footage of Maidan under fire, not analysis after the fact, carries the story.