Iraq after the 2003 invasion, where nightly killings have pushed the death toll toward an estimated 655,000 civilians. In Baghdad alone, up to a hundred bodies turn up on the streets each day, many showing marks of torture by electric drill. The film's central claim cuts against the usual narrative: most of this killing is not al Qaeda or the Sunni insurgency but organized Shia death squads working to reshape Iraq into a state aligned with Iran. It traces those squads back to militias controlled by senior Shia politicians, and documents how those same militias have moved into police units and entire ministries, blurring the line between state security forces and the death squads themselves. The investigation follows how deeply this infiltration runs and why so few of the killings are ever investigated or prosecuted. The picture that emerges is of violence operating with official cover, carried out by men who answer to political patrons rather than to any court.