A former Navy SEAL who says he fired the shot that killed Osama bin Laden sits for a series of interviews with Phil Bronstein, executive chairman of the Center for Investigative Reporting, his voice altered to protect his identity. The film follows Bronstein's reporting, later published in Esquire, and lets the SEAL describe how he ended up in a recruiter's office at nineteen and worked his way into Seal Team 6. He talks about the raid itself only in passing; most of the interview concerns what came after, leaving the military without a pension, health insurance, or protection for his family, despite having carried out one of the most consequential missions in recent American history. Animation fills in scenes the camera never could, while the interviews stay plain and unguarded, a man in a wicker chair working through what he owes his wife and kids and what the government owes him. The film's real subject is that gap between the mission's significance and the support given to the person who carried it out.