A battery-cage egg farm in Turlock, California collapses when its owner walks away, leaving roughly 50,000 hens locked in cages without food or water for more than two weeks. The animal rescue group Animal Place gets the call and negotiates access to the farm, then works to pull as many birds as possible out of the wreckage: cameras follow volunteers reaching into stacked cages, finding hens too weak to stand and others already dead beside them. The rescue saves 4,460 hens, loaded into transport crates and driven to Animal Place's sanctuary, where the film shows the unglamorous work of triage: cleaning cages, treating infections, and slowly letting birds that have never touched dirt outside a cage encounter grass and sunlight for the first time. The footage lingers on small physical details, an emaciated hen's feathers, a first tentative dust bath, that make the scale of the neglect concrete rather than abstract. It is a rescue story told mostly through the process of rescue itself.