Drawing on the cultural sociology of narratives and stories, this documentary film analysis assesses the social impact of storytelling. The power dynamics, personal utility, subversive capacity, and psychological impacts of narratives and narrative structures is well documented. While it is through the consumption, creation, and recounting of stories that humans understand and make sense of the world, academic studies of narratives center primarily around analyses of the role of stories in society, while few reflexively explore the process of telling stories and conducting research about stories. In this study, I interviewed 14 Colorado College students, faculty, and staff, asking each of them to tell me a story in relation to ten emotionally neutral words. I filmed this process and edited it to create a 28-minute documentary film about the social impact of stories and storytelling. I found that the process of asking people to tell stories, and the human connection catalyzed by these interactions, was more salient than the substance of the stories themselves.