The international arms trade is the subject here, examined by journalist John Pilger and director David Munro as a business built on official secrecy and government complicity. The film argues that weapons manufacturing is treated as an ordinary export industry, defended by ministers and defense contractors as a matter of jobs and national interest, while the same governments that profit from arms sales often position themselves as peacekeepers on the world stage. Pilger's reporting follows the money and the paperwork rather than the battlefield, pressing officials and industry figures on how deals are brokered and to whom weapons ultimately go, including regimes with poor human rights records. The tone is confrontational in the style familiar from Pilger's other work: on-camera interviews used to catch evasions, official statements set against contrary evidence. There is little in the way of scenery or reenactment; the film builds its case through interviews and documentation rather than dramatization, treating the arms trade as a policy failure hidden behind patriotic language.