In the summer of 2011, filmmaker Patrick Wells spends three weeks living with a rebel unit called the Martyr's Brigade on the Dafniya frontline outside Misrata, Libya, filming alone with a handheld camera and no tripod. Abubaker Maiteig, a teacher in the UK before the siege of his hometown pulled him back, fights alongside his brother Mohammed and a handful of other citizen soldiers with no military training, coping with shelling, boredom, and the daily possibility of death. Wells shoots without voiceover or archive footage, using only music the fighters play on their own instruments, and stays until the men trust him enough to talk openly about fear, killing, and loss. The film's real interest is the gap between how war is imagined, through media, video games, and Hollywood, and what these men actually live through on a frontline with barely any trenches dug for cover. Wells dedicates the film to journalist Tim Hetherington, killed in Misrata in April 2011 shortly after the two spoke in Benghazi, along with three other colleagues lost covering the war.