John Bul Dau, Daniel Pach, and Panther Bior are three of the Lost Boys of Sudan, young men who walked hundreds of miles across Ethiopia and Kenya as children fleeing civil war, spending years in the Kakuma refugee camp before resettlement agencies fly them to the United States. The film follows them from that camp into apartments in Pittsburgh and Syracuse, where they learn to use light switches, grocery stores, and alarm clocks while sending money home and searching for family members they lost track of over a decade earlier. John Bul Dau becomes the group's de facto spokesman, working multiple factory jobs while pushing to bring his mother and sister to America. Interviews with the men, their American sponsors, and footage shot inside Kakuma itself trace the gap between the danger they survived and the disorientation of a supermarket aisle. Narration by Nicole Kidman frames the story, but the men's own accounts of walking past lions and crocodiles, and later of a first Thanksgiving turkey, carry it.