The flick fixate drummer Artimus Pyle's experience as a band member in Lynyrd Skynyrd and also the unfortunately fateful day their leased plane crashed in the swamps of Gillsburg, MS on October 20th, 1977 and also took the lives of vocalist Ronnie Van Zant, guitarist Steve Gaines, his sister back-up singer Cassie Gaines, road manager Dean Kilpatrick, and also the two pilots. This flick focuses on the hours leading up to the occasion, the day of, as well as the after-effects.