A woman lawyer is Christmas shopping with her carpenter husband when all of a sudden, he is arrested by the federal government, and deprived of his clothes. Then he gets a new outfit-the uniform of a United States Marine sergeant, and he is charged with going AWOL after a covert mission in El Salvador where he is supposed to have committed the crime of massacring a group of civilians in a village in the 1980's.
The woman suspects her husband is being railroaded when she finds a bug placed in her home and her defending counsel an inexperienced first lieutenant, as well as witnesses to the incident disappearing. She finds a black disgruntled ex-soldier as a defense counsel, who knows the ways of the military bureaucracy. She also hears from a man claiming to have been in the village where the massacre took place.
Events in the movie lead us to suspect the husband is being railroaded-but what is really going on? This is based on a novel of the same title, but reportedly different from it. But holes crop up as the story continues, and we wonder if this sort of situation would have occurred in real life.
The woman suspects her husband is being railroaded when she finds a bug placed in her home and her defending counsel an inexperienced first lieutenant, as well as witnesses to the incident disappearing. She finds a black disgruntled ex-soldier as a defense counsel, who knows the ways of the military bureaucracy. She also hears from a man claiming to have been in the village where the massacre took place.
Events in the movie lead us to suspect the husband is being railroaded-but what is really going on? This is based on a novel of the same title, but reportedly different from it. But holes crop up as the story continues, and we wonder if this sort of situation would have occurred in real life.