Libyan exiles cross back into their own country in 2011 as Muammar Gaddafi's forty-two-year rule collapses, joining fighters pushing toward a newly-liberated Tripoli. The film follows the group on the road, through checkpoints and captured towns, as they move from decades abroad into the middle of an active civil war. Handheld footage and on-the-ground interviews capture the mix of elation and disorientation of men returning to a country they left as young men or children, now armed and fighting alongside relatives and strangers who never left. The camera stays close to the convoys and the makeshift camps rather than to any studio analysis, so the sense of the uprising comes from checkpoint conversations, roadside wreckage, and the exiles' own accounts of why they came back. As the first part of a longer account, it ends with Tripoli still ahead, the outcome of the revolution still undecided, and the returning exiles still uncertain what kind of country they will find when they get there.