Thailand's 2003 crackdown on methamphetamine use begins as a promise the Prime Minister makes to the King: eliminate an estimated 3 million amphetamine users. The film tracks what that promise becomes on the ground, where police compile 'blacklists' of suspected dealers and users, thousands turn up dead in what get called 'Silent Killings,' and evidence that might implicate officers disappears before it can be examined. General Sant, a senior figure in the enforcement campaign, poses beside the bodies of three people found with drugs and tells the camera 'This is war! We won't shoot at people until they shoot at us.' Interviews with families and observers set that framing against a rising body count of people never charged with anything, and scientific investigation into the killings stalls amid what witnesses describe as an atmosphere of fear. The film stays with the gap between the official story of a war on drugs and the pattern of extrajudicial killing underneath it.