Archival footage traces the final act of Czechoslovakia's 1989 uprising and its aftermath, centered on February 26, 1990, when President Václav Havel travels to Moscow to meet Mikhail Gorbachev. The two sign an agreement setting terms for the complete withdrawal of Soviet troops from Czechoslovakian soil, ending decades of military occupation that began after the 1968 Prague Spring. ITN camera crews are on the ground the same day, filming the first contingents of Red Army soldiers as they pack up and depart, giving the film its most striking scene: the physical, visible end of Soviet power in the country. The footage moves between the diplomatic meeting in Moscow and the departing convoys at home, letting viewers watch the negotiated outcome and its immediate, on-the-ground consequence side by side. Havel's role as playwright turned statesman runs through the film as the connective thread between the revolution's street protests and its formal, treaty-signed conclusion.