The poignant and layered story of several individuals caught up at various ends of the U.S. war on terror – a senator attempting to spin the latest comprehensive strategy to a network news journalist, an idealistic professor trying to convince one of his most promising students to change the course of his life, and two young men, fighting in the snow-capped mountains of Afgananistan, whose desire to live a life of meaning leads them to join the U.S. Army and the fight against global terrorism.