Dick Cheney spent three decades moving through Washington's corridors of power before becoming George W. Bush's vice president, and this film traces that climb using archival footage and commentary rather than access to Cheney himself. It follows him from congressional staffer to Halliburton's chief executive and back into government, then into the Iraq war years, where his company's no-bid contracts and his push for military action after September 11 draw the film's sharpest scrutiny. The question running through it is simple: who benefited from the decisions Cheney made, and at what cost to others? Cheney's second term win is treated as the moment his influence peaked, and the film works backward and forward from there, laying out the alliances and maneuvers that kept him central to policy on Iraq and beyond. It stops short of a courtroom verdict, leaving the viewer to weigh the record of contracts, war, and political power against Cheney's public defense of it.