Using mobile phone footage filmed inside Gaza, five people share the reality of trying to survive Israel's retaliatory air strikes, following Hamas' attack on 7 October that killed at least 1,200 Israelis (revised down from 1,400) and saw 240 Israelis kidnapped and taken into Gaza. Their experience reveals the unprecedented humanitarian crisis created during the first month of the war, during which over 10,000 Palestinians were killed. Raw and emotional testimonies illustrate the impossible choices they face, the losses they endure, and the lives they see destroyed. Abdulhakim, a 23-year-old graduate in the Al Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza, shows us the chaos following the bombing of his building and his heartbreak as he searches for survivors. Farida, an English teacher from Gaza City, journeys south in search of safety with her siblings and their young children, sleeping on the streets. Khalid, a medical aid supplier living in the heavily bombed neighbourhood of Jabalia, refuses to leave his home and stays behind to care for his young relatives. Adam, a youth worker sheltering in Khan Younis in southern Gaza, tries to find medical care for his seriously ill father in hospitals overcrowded with the wounded. And Salma, a dental student based in central Gaza, documents the terrifying experience of enduring night-time under bombardment, and the anxiety of whether she and her family will make it till morning.