Seven months after President Bush declared major combat operations over in Iraq, BBC journalist Sean Langan drives into the country with just a camera and no fixer arranged in advance. He films firefights breaking out around him, survives a mob that turns hostile, and negotiates secret meetings with hooded men who identify themselves as resistance fighters. The most striking footage follows a suicide bomber through his preparations before an attack on a bridge held by US soldiers, captured close enough to hear the men involved talk. Langan works alone, without a film crew or the security details other journalists relied on, which puts him inside moments most reporting from Iraq at the time only described secondhand. The trip becomes a running argument with the war's own slogan: checkpoints, ambushes, and the fear on ordinary Iraqis' faces make the phrase "mission accomplished" look premature at best. No narrator smooths over the danger or confusion Langan records as it happens.