Abdullah Öcalan sits for a rare interview in this ABC Australia report, filmed at PKK training camps then operating in Syria before Damascus expelled him in 1998. Correspondents talk to Kurdish fighters in the field about what they are training for and why, and the group's own account of itself emphasizes a socially progressive movement with women in combat and command roles, not the terrorist label Ankara applies to it. The report sets that self-image against the Turkish government's framing directly, letting both descriptions of the same organization sit side by side rather than resolving them. Öcalan speaks about his goals for the movement and his sense of the Kurdish cause, footage that becomes more pointed in hindsight given his capture and life imprisonment not long after. The camps, the recruits, and the leader are shown as three parts of one machine, with the report's real interest in how a stateless insurgency organizes itself on foreign soil and what its fighters believe they are fighting for.