

A plane falls from the sky. Twelve lives unravel in its wake.
Traces the stories of characters affected by the Swissair flight 111 crash, which happened off the coast of Nova Scotia, near the entrance of Margaret’s Bay, on September 2, 1998.
Acting
Ensemble cast captures grief without melodrama.
Direction
Mueller's patient, documentary-adjacent storytelling.
Director
Mauro Mueller
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The real Swissair 111 recovery became Canada's largest-ever search operation, involving over 2,000 personnel.
Director Mauro Mueller grew up in Switzerland and deliberately avoided focusing on the crash itself, instead interviewing actual Peggy's Cove residents for years.