Marking the first anniversary of October 7, directors Duki Dror and Jens Strohschnieder return to the sites of the Hamas attack and interview survivors, journalists, and security experts about how it happened and whether it could have been stopped. The film traces the failures of Israeli intelligence, politics, and the army that let the attack succeed, then follows the war in Gaza that followed. For many Israelis interviewed, the killings evoke memories of pogroms and the Holocaust; for Palestinians, the bombardment of Gaza revives the Nakba. Traumatologists from several countries are brought in to explain how inherited and collective trauma might account for atrocities that otherwise defy explanation on both sides. Rather than following the daily news cycle, the film steps back to build a fuller picture of the cycle of violence, asking what, if anything, could break it. It treats both populations' grief and fear as real without equating their circumstances, and lets specialists rather than politicians carry the analysis.