Yemen's civil war began in 2004 when the Shiite Houthi movement rose up against the Sunni-dominated government, and escalated sharply in 2014 when Houthi fighters occupied the capital, Sanaa. This DW Documentary traces how a Saudi-led military intervention turned a domestic uprising into a proxy war that has killed more than 400,000 people and left some 20 million Yemenis, roughly half the population, dependent on humanitarian aid. Footage from destroyed cities and interviews with residents and observers show blocked, looted, and black-market aid supplies alongside a generation of children growing up without schooling or medical care. The film brings the story to the present, showing how the Israel-Hamas war and Houthi attacks on Red Sea shipping have drawn US and allied airstrikes into the conflict, adding a new layer of violence onto an already exhausted population. It weighs the competing labels attached to the Houthis, pirates, terrorists, or freedom fighters, without settling on one, leaving the viewer with the scale of civilian suffering as the throughline.