In northern Uganda, tens of thousands of children walk into town centers every evening and sleep in bus depots, verandas, and hospital courtyards rather than risk abduction from their own homes. Three young American filmmakers, Jason Russell, Bobby Bailey, and Laren Poole, went to Africa in 2003 looking for a story and found the war between the Ugandan government and Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army, a conflict that had run for nearly two decades with almost no outside attention. The LRA's fighters are themselves children, boys and girls taken from their villages and forced to kill, which is the film's central, uncomfortable fact: the people terrorizing these towns are victims of the same war. Handheld camera work follows the nightly migration, called night commuting, as kids stream into Gulu on foot. This is the trio's first production, made before Invisible Children became an organization and years before the KONY 2012 campaign it would later launch.