可儿（克里斯汀·斯图尔特 Kristen Stewart 饰）厌倦了日复一日的生活，周围一成不变的一切让她简直就快要发疯，于是，可儿做出了一个疯狂的决定，成为一名军人。就这样，穿上了迷彩服的可儿被分配到了专门关押恐怖分子的关塔那摩湾监狱，在那里，她遇见了名为阿里（佩曼·莫阿迪 Peyman Moaadi 饰）的穆斯林男子。 　　监狱里发生的种种事迹一再地刷新着可儿的三观，亦让可儿开始思考什么才是真正的公平的正义，与此同时，可儿和阿里之间的关系也产生了变化，一种奇妙的“友谊”成为了联系两人的纽带。然而，可儿终究只是过客，她万万没有想到的是，自己的离开竟然会让阿里丧失继续活下去的希望。A young soldier escapes her suffocating small town by joining the military, only to find that she isn't going for a tour of duty in Iraq as she hoped. Instead, she's sent to Guantanamo. Met with hatred and abuse from the men in her charge, she forges an odd friendship with a young man who has been imprisoned at Gitmo for eight years.