The Democratic Republic of Congo has lost millions of people to a conflict the United Nations calls the deadliest since World War Two, and this film traces it back to 1996, when Rwanda and Uganda first invaded the country then known as Zaire, followed by a second invasion in 1998. Analysts and Congolese voices lay out what followed: mass killing, systemic sexual violence used as a weapon, and the looting of Congo's mineral wealth, coltan and gold among it, that fuels global electronics and jewelry markets. The film pushes the timeline back further, framing the current instability as the product of a 125-year arc running from King Leopold's forced-labor regime through colonial rule, the assassination of Patrice Lumumba, and decades of dictatorship. Its sharpest argument concerns Washington's role, since Rwanda and Uganda are both US allies, and the film asks whether American policy has quietly rewarded the strongmen profiting from the war rather than the Congolese paying for it. No resolution is offered, only the accounting.