Pakistan's war against terrorism rarely makes international headlines, though the toll is staggering: since 2001, over 5,000 soldiers and roughly 40,000 civilians have died in the conflict. The film puts faces to those numbers through two families. Imran and his mother Beyji describe Saleem, a volunteer guard at a Sufi shrine in Lahore who chased down a suicide bomber during a 2010 attack and lost his life doing it. Zaraar and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Zafar Abbasi, remember their son Captain Bilal Zafar, who led twenty men on a covert operation into Swat Valley in 2009 to push the Taliban out of the district. The filmmaker narrates in first person, sitting with both families as they talk through grief and pride at once, and using their testimony to work through what it actually costs ordinary Pakistanis to fight an enemy embedded in their own communities. The film stays close to these two households rather than widening into policy or geopolitics, treating personal loss as the more honest measure of the war.