Down to Chance depicts Anchorage during the 1964 Great Alaskan Earthquake, following part-time radio reporter Genie Chance as she broadcasts through the crisis. Joined by her teenage intern, a visiting general, and a local enthusiast, she becomes a central figure in organizing information and coordinating aid while confronting the risks facing her own family. Drawing on documented events, the production outlines the community-wide response that formed around Chance’s live reporting and examines the role of radio communication in a moment of widespread disaster.