Medevac helicopters cross Afghanistan daily to pull the wounded out of firefights, and cameraman Vaughan Smith spends two weeks embedded with the paramedics of the US Army's 214th Aviation Regiment to film what that work actually looks like. The crews do not sort patients by side: American soldiers, Afghan civilians, and wounded Taliban fighters all get lifted onto the same aircraft and treated by the same hands, and the film follows several missions flown under fire to reach them. Smith's camera stays close in the cabin as medics work on patients mid-flight, and where the film could not get permission to show an injured person's face, it blurs the identity rather than cutting the shot. Some of what he captured is graphic. The footage lands against a specific moment in the war: American commanders were then planning the first troop reductions, a move framed as a possible turning point, even as the casualty count kept climbing on the ground below the helicopters.