Marie Colvin is a young American journalist who becomes appointed to The Sunday Times for which she begins to travel the world, visiting the most dangerous countries and documenting their civil wars.
A group of journalists covering George Bush's planned invasion of Iraq in 2003 are skeptical of the presidents claim that Saddam Hussein has "weapons of mass destruction."
American journalists in Sudan are confronted with the dilemma of whether to return home to report on the atrocities they have seen, or to stay behind and help some of the victims they have encountered.