The International Space Station has been in orbit since its first component launched on November 20, 1998, and this film traces how a singular moment in post-Cold War history made a joint US-Russian project possible in the first place. Crew members from multiple nations describe life aboard, including the years when female astronauts could not perform spacewalks because no suit had been built to fit them. The film also tracks how politics on the ground reaches the station itself, showing how the war in Ukraine created tension inside the cramped, shared quarters of astronauts and cosmonauts who still depend on each other to survive. Interviews and archival footage cover the engineering feats and near-disasters that kept the station running for over two decades. The film closes on the ISS's approaching end: originally slated to retire in 2024, its mission was extended to 2030, after which it will be deliberately deorbited and brought down to Earth in a controlled crash in 2031.