Inside the Doha newsroom of Al Jazeera during the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Jehane Noujaim's cameras follow the network's producers and correspondents as they decide what the Arab world sees of the war. Senior producer Samir Khader argues on camera for ratings and access even as he dreams of a green card and a house in the suburbs, while correspondent Hassan Ibrahim clashes with US military press officers over civilian casualty footage that American networks refuse to air. At Central Command in Kuwait, press liaison Lieutenant Josh Rushing tries to defend the American case to skeptical Arab reporters, then watches his own certainty crack as the war's images pile up, including the killing of an Al Jazeera correspondent in a US airstrike. The film cuts between the two press operations, American and Arab, covering the identical war from rooms a few hundred miles apart and producing almost opposite realities. Shot in real time as the invasion unfolds, it stays with the tension between propaganda, journalism, and genuine belief on both sides of the story.