Plot

The famous adventurer Robert Young Pelton travels with a former "Lost Boy" child soldier back to the violence of South Sudan to track down the recently deposed Vice President Riek Machar in his secret jungle camp and become the first to film the brutal White Army in combat.

It started as a simple idea: visit the world's newest nation with Machot Lat Thiep, a gangly 32-year-old Sudanese former Lost Boy who wants to help his nation, a homeland that is less than three years old and already in danger of becoming a failed...famous adventurer and author Robert Young Pelton and cameraman Tim Freccia, and a former South Sudanese child soldier travel to South Sudan as it is falling apart.

Not surprisingly Pelton and his team run into a number of problems on their journey. First they have to find pilot foolhardy enough to smuggle them into the middle of an raging war between the government in Juba and the Nuer rebels led by Riek Machar, the country's vice president. A man who narrowly escaped an assassination attempt against his life.

Life in the rebel camp is disturbing to Machot. He has left this country to start a new life in Seattle. His dream was to help rebuild South Sudan but it has literally fallen apart in front of him. The scenes of his reminiscing of his youth and another generation living from hand to mouth disturb him.

They haggle and negotiate their way through a desolate wasteland, hunting for food and traveling on overcrowded blood soaked pickups. Finally Pelton gets his interview with the bush rebel Machar. Living in his secret camp, they venture north to document the fearsome and undisciplined White Army in now legendary battle in the town of Malakal. A battle that turns into a wholesale slaughter captured in real time by Pelton and Freccia. In Pelton's career of capturing combat up close, this film is one of his most intense and enlightening.