On December 7, 1975, Indonesia invaded East Timor with the tacit backing of the United States, Britain, and Australia, and journalist John Pilger spends this film tracing what that invasion cost. Two Australian television crews were killed trying to film the operation, and Pilger uses their footage and testimony from survivors to reconstruct a occupation that by the time of filming, in 1993, had killed a large share of the territory's population. He interviews East Timorese resistance figures, aid workers, and Western officials, and confronts the diplomats and arms dealers whose governments kept selling Indonesia weapons and looking away. Archival footage of the invasion and its aftermath sits alongside secret documents showing how much Canberra, London, and Washington knew and when. Pilger's own narration is blunt and accusatory, naming names and tracing the oil and gas interests in the Timor Gap that he argues explain the silence. The film builds toward a direct question about complicity: not just Jakarta's guilt, but who armed and financed it.