The year 2012 sits at the center of this film, treated as the flashpoint for a much older human habit: predicting how the world ends. The film moves through the competing versions of that story, from Mayan calendar prophecy and religious end-times belief to scientific and technological doomsday scenarios, without settling on one as correct. Interviews with scholars of religion, scientists, and psychologists sit alongside each other, each asked to explain why a given prediction takes hold and what it does to the people who believe it. Archival footage and imagery of past apocalyptic movements run under the discussion, showing that 2012 is only the latest date attached to an old anxiety. The film's real interest is less in whether any prophecy is true than in the psychology of belief itself, why entire communities reorganize their lives around a coming ending, and what happens to them when the date passes and nothing does.