On February 4, 2004, Mark Zuckerberg launches TheFacebook.com from his Harvard dorm room — initially open only to Harvard students, spreading to Stanford, Yale, and Columbia within weeks. The film frames the launch as an act of creation born in a single sleepless night of grief and fury, and tells it backward from the depositions: a site built to connect people by a young man who, the film implies, found connection difficult.
