On the night of 28 September 1994, the ferry Estonia sails from Tallinn into a Baltic storm with waves over 15 meters high, running at full speed while other ships on the route slow down. Metal-on-metal scraping is the first warning: the locks on the bow visor are failing under the strain of the sea, and when the visor tears away it leaves the car deck opening exposed to the water. The ship lurches 20 degrees to starboard within minutes and keeps tilting toward 90, pinning passengers under falling equipment and making the corridors impossible to climb. Most lifeboats never launch because the ship is lying on its side by the time crews reach them. The vessel goes down in about six hours to a depth of more than 75 meters. Of 852 people who die, only 95 bodies are ever recovered; the wreck itself is left unsalvaged, covered in sand, and declared an official grave site. The film reconstructs the sinking hour by hour from that chain of mechanical failure to final collapse.