In South Los Angeles, a young mother's love for her daughter is put to the test.

While investigating the disappearance of an US Marine recruit at a top secret SERE (Survival, Evasion, Resistance & Escape) training site, Avril Heart, an undercover Department of Homeland Security agent, endures 'enhanced interrogation' in order to learn the truth. After the death of another Marine cooperating with her investigation, Agent Heart discovers a shocking conspiracy that calls into question everything she is fighting for.

Three stories told simultaneously in ninety minutes of real time: a Republican Senator who's a presidential hopeful gives an hour-long interview to a skeptical television reporter, detailing a strategy for victory in Afghanistan; two special forces ambushed on an Afghani ridge await rescue as Taliban forces close in; a poli-sci professor at a California college invites a student to re-engage.

When an Egyptian terrorism suspect "disappears" on a flight from Africa to Washington DC, his American wife and a CIA analyst find themselves caught up in a struggle to secure his release from a secret detention facility somewhere outside the US.

The story of a young Marine, fresh from Camp Pendleton, who is forced to confront the complexities of adulthood and a volatile home life during a four-day Thanksgiving leave.