Private military contractors have quietly become a fixture of the war in Afghanistan, filling gaps left by stretched British and American armies, and journalist Sam Kiley sets out to find who these men actually are. His most unsettling interview is with Jack Idema, an ex-Marine Special Forces soldier turned rogue operator who went hunting for Osama bin Laden on his own, chasing the Bush administration's two-million-dollar reward. Kiley pairs that story with footage shot by the private military companies themselves, glossy promotional material that sits uneasily against accounts from former employees, military veterans, and media watchdogs describing what those operations look like on the ground. The film traces the industry's growth from a fringe business into a parallel force operating with little independent oversight, and asks who answers for these contractors' actions when something goes wrong. Idema's case becomes the film's clearest example: a soldier of fortune operating in the space between patriotism, profit, and the law, with no clear chain of command above him.