The war in Afghanistan gets broken into six discrete arguments here, each built around a single question rather than a single narrative. One segment follows the human cost to American troops and their families; another traces Pakistan's tangled, often contradictory role in the conflict. A third segment adds up the financial cost of the war to both the United States and Afghanistan, while a fourth compares the rights and daily lives of Afghan women before and after the war began. The civilian casualties segment counts the toll on the local population, and a closing segment on security weighs what options, if any, could actually end the fighting. Rather than following one thread from start to finish, the film moves segment to segment, letting each stand as its own case file before turning to the next. The approach favors breadth over a single point of view, presenting the war as a set of interlocking problems, financial, military, political, and human, that any solution would have to address at once.