CIA analysts, mostly women working in a unit nicknamed Alec Station, spent over a decade tracking Osama bin Laden before a Navy SEAL raid ended the hunt in Abbottabad, Pakistan in 2011. Director Greg Barker interviews the intelligence officers who built the case, including analysts who followed a courier known as Abu Ahmed al-Kuwaiti through years of dead ends, bureaucratic infighting, and the aftermath of 9/11 that turned their obscure desk job into the government's top priority. The film uses first-person accounts rather than reenactments, letting the people who did the work describe the frustration of the pre-9/11 years when their warnings went unheeded, and the tension of the final months when a walled compound with no phone or internet connection became their best lead. It also sits with the aftermath of the interrogation program used to extract information, and the mixed feelings of analysts who spent their careers on one target and then had to figure out what came next.