Michael Keaton stars as Wiener, a CNN on-location producer in Baghdad, Iraq during the Gulf War in 1991.

Fundamentally an action–drama, the characters grapple with the ethics and implications of 24-hour journalism in the days leading up to and during the United States-led bombing of Baghdad.

In Atlanta, CNN picks Robert Wiener and his crew to go to Baghdad and cover the invasion.

At Rome International Airport, Wiener meets his colleague and producer Ingrid Formanek.

The crew report their first story on a young British boy held as a hostage by Saddam Hussein.

Wiener later meets the Iraqi Minister of Information Naji Al Hadithi, and requests pieces of equipment and an interview with Hussein.

Wiener and his crew get access to interview Americans forced to stay in the country by the Iraqi government.

The United Nations gives Iraq until January 15, 1991 to withdraw from Kuwait, or face military action.

As the deadline comes to an end the crew sees that the Iraqi Army is installing anti-aircraft guns in Baghdad.

The film shows the points of view from Saddam Hussein and U.S. President George H. W. Bush watching the CNN reports.

Other archival footage is of Dick Cheney, during a news conference as Bush's Defense Secretary, stating "The best coverage I've seen of what transpired in Baghdad was on CNN", and NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw stating, "CNN used to be called the little network that could.