In the summer of 2000, nearly 350,000 acres of Montana's Bitterroot Valley burned. When Somewhere Burned is a short archival documentary that goes back to that summer through the people who lived it — the residents, ranchers, and local firefighters who had protected these communities for generations. It is a story about fire, but more than that, it is a story about land, memory, and what it means to protect the home you love.