The film follows Jesús, a Mexican national seeking US citizenship through military service, who returns home to Los Angeles on furlough from the Iraq War.

[1] After a traumatic incident during service in the Iraq War, he returns home on furlough to spend time with his wife and daughter in Los Angeles.

[3] Jesús increasingly has trouble distinguishing fantasy from reality, and visits a doctor who offers apparently paranoid theories about pharmaceutical experimentation on soldiers.

[13] In The New York Times, reviewer Matt Zoller Seitz criticized the film's writing and acting, but praised its narrative structure and its use of night-vision imagery as a visual device to contrast against everyday life.

[3] Writing for The Austin Chronicle, Josh Rosenblatt called the film "an odd little movie" and noted that it successfully portrayed some of the mental states of returning soldiers but focused too much on Jesús' inner thoughts.

[2] A Los Angeles Times review by Michael Ordona similarly focused on the political message of the film, noting that it asked important questions about the value of citizenship and whether veterans can ever recover from war.