Thousands of Indigenous Canadians volunteered to fight in the Second World War even though they were exempt from conscription and, in many cases, still barred from voting or owning property in their own country. Director Loretta Todd gathers Indigenous veterans who describe enlisting, shipping overseas, and fighting in Europe, then returning home to find the discrimination they left behind unchanged and the benefits given to other veterans withheld from them. Archival footage of training camps, troop ships, and combat mixes with present-day interviews shot on reserves and in living rooms, where the men and women who served weigh what the war asked of them against what their country gave back. The film lingers on the specific unfairness of fighting fascism abroad while facing segregation and broken treaty promises at home, and lets veterans describe how long it took, in some cases decades, before their service was even officially acknowledged. It is a record of loyalty extended to a country that was slow to return it.