American conscientious objectors during the Vietnam War tell their own stories, from burning draft cards to choosing prison over induction. David Harris, founder of a draft-resistance network, describes organizing resistance that continued even from inside a jail cell, and the film sets his account alongside lesser-known objectors whose sentences ran into years. Archival footage traces how public figures like Martin Luther King Jr. and Muhammad Ali lent the movement visibility despite fierce backlash, while interviews with participants fill in the everyday risk of refusing conscription: FBI visits, courtroom sentencing, families split over the decision. The film treats the movement as a youth-led moral stand rather than a fringe protest, arguing that mass, public refusal to serve helped push the political pressure that ended the draft and hastened America's withdrawal from Vietnam. Rare period footage of rallies, draft-card burnings, and prison interviews gives the account texture beyond the familiar Vietnam War narrative, focusing on the people who said no and paid for it.