In Aleppo and along Syria's front lines, volunteers with the Syrian Civil Defence run toward collapsed buildings after airstrikes, digging through rubble with their hands and basic tools to pull survivors out before the next bomb falls. The film follows several of these rescuers, ordinary men who were bakers, tailors, and blacksmiths before the war, as they train, argue over tactics, and grieve colleagues killed on previous callouts. Their motto, drawn from the Quran, holds that saving one life is like saving all of humanity, and the film returns to that idea as a counterweight to the footage of destroyed apartment blocks and dust-covered children. One rescuer travels to Turkey for a rare break with his family, torn between staying safe and returning to a city that keeps getting bombed. There is no narrator standing between the viewer and the work; the camera simply stays close as men run into buildings everyone else is running out of, and the film closes with the numbers of people they have pulled out alive.