Twenty-four-year-old Ajmal Naqshbandi is a "fixer," someone hired by foreign journalists to facilitate the gathering of news stories. In 2007 he was captured with an Italian journalist by the Taliban in Afghanistan. With the aid of his government and high levels of publicity, the Italian was spared, but the Afghan wan't so lucky. After the dust of his murder settles, Ajmal's friends, family, and his fellow abductee try to make sense of the harsh fate that befell him.

This emotionally mesmerizing documentary takes an intensely personal journey into the dangerous and unseen world of wartime news gathering, where nationality can determine the value of a life. A Westerner's abduction will make headlines around the world, but director Ian Olds' (Occupation: Dreamland) examines what happens for those who don't make the international headlines—in this case an Afghan. He achieves a weighty tension by mingling two storylines. Six months before his abduction, Ajmal amiably shepherds American journalist Christian Parenti from one dangerous interview with machine-gun-toting militants to the next. The chronicles of this assignment are interrupted by brutal, Taliban-shot images from the squall that was to come—Ajmal and journalist Daniele Mastrogiacomo, mistaken for spies, bound and battered, captives at the mercy of a rogue army.

Ian Olds