Colombia's Revolutionary Armed Forces, FARC, have fought the government for 47 years, a conflict that began over land rights and agrarian reform and later became entangled with the cocaine trade. This film follows the government's demobilisation program, which offers ex-guerrillas a pardon along with economic, educational and psychological support if they leave the jungle and reintegrate into civilian life. President Juan Manuel Santos, who as defence minister helped drive the military campaign against FARC, appears at a public forum defending the strategy, framing it bluntly as a choice for fighters between demobilising, jail, or death. The film traces the harder line taken by his predecessor Alvaro Uribe, whose own father was killed in a FARC kidnapping and who rejected the peace talks his predecessor Andres Pastrana had pursued. Filmmakers Manuel Contreras and Russ Finkelstein follow former combatants weighing whether the government's promises will hold and whether they can resist the pull of the life and the trade they left behind.