Reporter Michael Altenhenne lands in Simferopol in early March 2014, when Crimea is still an autonomous republic inside Ukraine, and stays through the two weeks that end with it becoming part of Russia. He walks the streets as unmarked soldiers take up positions outside government buildings, talks to residents lining up to vote in the referendum on joining Russia, and catches the mood shifting from confusion to celebration to unease as Ukrainian flags come down. Interviews range from Crimean Tatars wary of the change to Russian-speaking locals who welcome it, giving the film a ground-level view of a political rupture usually described only in headlines. Altenhenne keeps his own commentary minimal, letting checkpoints, rallies, and street conversations carry the account of how a peninsula changed hands in a fortnight. It works as a firsthand record of one of the opening moves in the Ukraine-Russia conflict, made while the outcome was still uncertain to the people living through it.