The film facilities on drummer Artimus Pyle's expertise as a band member in Lynyrd Skynyrd and the tragically fateful day their rented aircraft crashed within the swamps of Gillsburg, MS on October twentieth, 1977 and took the lives of singer Ronnie Van Zant, guitarist Steve Gaines, his sister backup singer Cassie Gaines, highway supervisor Dean Kilpatrick, and the 2 pilots. This film focuses on the hours main as much as the occasion, the day of, and the aftermath.