For twenty years the Democratic Republic of Congo has cycled through conflict over the minerals beneath it, and this film turns to a group rarely asked for its own account: the women carrying weapons on both sides of the fighting. Interviews take viewers into militia camps and army barracks to meet fighters whose paths in mirror each other in unexpected ways. Some joined a rebel group after losing a father in battle and never left; others deserted a militia only to find the national army was the sole place left willing to take them. The film lets these women describe motive in their own words rather than filing them under victimhood, the default role assigned to women in most coverage of the war. Their reasons range from ideology to sheer survival, and none of them describe anything resembling peace within living memory. Shot on location amid the ongoing conflict, the documentary builds a picture of a war economy that has absorbed women as combatants just as thoroughly as it has men.