Clint Lorance is serving a 19-year sentence for murder at Leavenworth Prison in the United States. While deployed to Afghanistan in July 2012, the former lieutenant ordered three local men on a motorcycle to shoot at, kill two of them and defeat his platoon. In a first-hand account of a soldier navigating the US military's legal system, Lorance attempts to overturn his convictions and provoke an emotional debate between supporters and opponents. As the decisions about Lorance's fate unfold, they not only examine the merits of his conviction, but analyze the system in general, ultimately testing the balance between guilt and innocence in the unfathomable conditions of today's wars.