August 1, 1966, a hot day in Austin, Texas. An unknown shooter occupies the upper floor of the clock tower on the university campus and begins firing at passersby. The minute hand seems to be advancing at a desperate crawl – has the murderous madness stopped time? One shot follows another, more and more lifeless bodies drop to the sunbleached ground… Keith Maitland backs away from an “objective” description of events, shifting the narrative focus toward the personal experiences, impressions, and feelings of eyewitnesses, their perspectives on what happened alternating rhythmically. The terror of those 96 minutes materializes before our eyes in a dramatic reconstruction enhanced with masterful rotoscope animation. The protagonists’ testimonies and carefully selected archive materials enrich the film’s already singular form. Thus we too experience the icy chill of the mayhem and feel to our very marrow the penetrating fear suffered by the survivors and the victims of the first mediatized school massacre in the United States.