Enraged by the loss of their commander to an insurgent's bomb, a convoy of U.S. Marines brutally massacres 24 Iraqi men, women and children - tragic casualties of a war they cannot control. Nick Broomfield's acclaimed dramatic and moving recreation of this fateful day in 2005 uses real people and real locations and was shot mostly in real time which "immerses us as no other film on Iraq has done in the dust and smoke of warfare" (Observer).