Tomas Young enlisted days after September 11 and shipped to Iraq in 2004, where a bullet severed his spine and left him paralyzed from the chest down. Filmmakers Ellen Spiro and Phil Donahue follow him home to Kansas City, into his marriage, his catheters and medications, and his slow shift from wounded soldier to war critic. The film intercuts that domestic footage with archival tape of the October 2002 Senate floor debate that authorized the invasion, replaying the roll call vote name by name and lingering on Senator Robert Byrd, one of the twenty-three who voted no and who later meets Young in person. That structure makes the argument without narration: a body in a wheelchair set against the politicians who sent it there. Young's marriage strains under the weight of his injuries and his anger, and the film does not soften either. It ends less as a war film than as an accounting, asking what the vote in that chamber actually cost one soldier.