Bill Gentile, a veteran foreign correspondent turned digital-age freelancer, follows a new wave of independent journalists covering Mexico's drug war, a conflict that has claimed more than 175,000 lives. With mainstream outlets pulling back on international bureaus, these reporters work without institutional backing, carrying their own cameras and often facing threats alone. Gentile shows them navigating checkpoints, interviewing sources who risk their lives to talk, and filing stories for a media landscape that increasingly depends on this kind of freelance labor while offering little protection in return. The film treats journalist safety as a central concern, showing the calculations reporters make about which stories are worth the risk and which sources can be trusted. It is as much about the collapse of a business model as about the violence in Mexico, tracing how technology made it possible for one person to do a correspondent's job cheaply, and what gets lost and gained when that happens.