The film features interviews with ten United States Air Force and Navy pilots shot down over North Vietnam in Operation Rolling Thunder and held as prisoners of war at Hỏa Lò Prison: Edward L. Hubbard, Everett Alvarez Jr., James Richard Shively, Herbert Benjamin Ringsdorf, Loren Harvey Torkelson, Robert R. Abbott, David Henry Duart, Leo Keith Thorsness, James Lindbergh Hughes, and Robinson Risner. Over the course of the interviews, the pilots are asked questions about their background and training, their experiences of being shot down and living as prisoners of war, and their thoughts on responsibility for the suffering caused by American bombing campaigns in Vietnam. The documentary concludes with many of the pilots stating that they oppose the American presence in Vietnam and hoping the election of a new American president in 1968 will lead to their release. The prisoners were not released until 1973 after the Paris Peace Accords.