[6] Filmmaker Jake Rademacher sets out to understand the motivation, sacrifice and experience of his two younger brothers, Isaac and Joe, serving in Iraq.

[7] The film depicts the toll the life-threatening work and separation take on the parents, siblings, wives and children of the soldiers.

Jake has to adjust to life in a combat zone, and goes out with reconnaissance troops on the Syrian border and visits sniper "hide sites" in the Sunni Triangle.

He returns to Iraq, where he is embedded with an Iraqi unit whose US military advisors have encountered embeds before and distrust him, calling him 'Johnny Press'.

[8] It is with this unit that Rademacher comes under fire, encounters casualties, and develops an appreciation for the commitment and loss.