Examines the 2004 Indian Ocean Boxing Day tsunami. Killing around 230,000 people and displacing 1.4 million more, it was one of the deadliest natural disasters in history. Told through the first-hand experiences of individuals from all over the world, cameras reveal how catastrophic events unfolded during the morning of December 26th, 2004. Among them is Rob, an Englishman who conveys the horrifying account of his desperate attempts to rescue his family from a paradise beach in Sri Lanka