In December 2002, an Afghan taxi driver named Dilawar was detained by American forces at Bagram Air Base and died five days later, his legs beaten to what a coroner called pulp. Alex Gibney's film uses Dilawar's death as the thread that pulls apart the Bush administration's interrogation policy, moving from Bagram to Abu Ghraib to Guantanamo Bay through interviews with the soldiers who carried out the abuse, military lawyers, interrogators, and officials including Donald Rumsfeld and Alberto Gonzales in archival testimony. Former MPs describe the orders and the atmosphere that produced them, and the film traces the legal memos that redefined torture into something permissible on paper. Rather than a simple condemnation, it builds a chain of decisions, from the White House down to a prison cellblock, and asks who actually bears responsibility when the paperwork keeps everyone's hands technically clean. Dilawar was innocent. The film treats that fact as the case's unresolved wound.