In February 2010, the research vessel Cabo de Hornos sits in a Chilean shipyard hours from its official launch when an 8.8 magnitude earthquake, one of the strongest ever recorded, sends a tsunami surging inland. The 2,000-ton ship is lifted clean off its blocks and carried hundreds of meters across a debris-strewn beach, coming to rest far from open water. The film follows the engineers tasked with an unprecedented salvage problem: how do you move a vessel worth 62 million dollars back to the sea when there is no dock, no crane large enough, and a shoreline reshaped by the wave itself. Interviews and technical footage lay out the calculations behind jacking systems, custom rail tracks, and the slow, months-long process of dragging the hull back to the water without breaking it apart. The earthquake and tsunami footage sets the stakes; the recovery operation is the actual story, a case study in improvised heavy engineering under conditions nobody had planned for.