18岁的韦恩和马克是两名普通的英军，2003年在伊拉克维护和平，当颇受欢迎的连长于巡逻时被路旁炸弹炸死后，整排的士气异常低落。他们按照命令挨户搜寻，发现几个嫌疑犯。当晚军营里情绪激昂，再加上命令传达出现问题，情况一发不可收拾…后来他们回国，被韦恩抛弃的女友雪莱，决定向他进行报复，把伊拉克事件的照片给了英国警方。故事很快上了头条，韦恩和马克被全国痛骂，并且面对军事法庭内的检控。军方声称韦恩和马克是腐败分子，完全是独自行动…
Plot Summary:GULLIVER and TATE - nickname 'Treacle' - are two ordinary 18 year-olds serving in the British Army in Iraq. Their platoon is struggling to maintain the uneasy peace of 2003. When their popular company captain, GODBER, is killed on patrol by a roadside bomb, morale in the platoon hits rock bottom. Acting on orders they round up several suspects from house-to-house searches. That night feelings at the camp are running high and as the chain of command is weakened and events spiral out of control. The lads end their tour of duty and return to England full of stories but also shaken by their experiences. Iraq comes back to haunt them when Gulliver's jilted girlfriend, Shelley, decides to get her own back on him by giving photos of the events in Iraq to the British police. The story hits the press, and Gulliver and Treacle, now the most reviled men in Britain, face court martial. The army claims the two are 'rotten apples' acting alone. Guilt-ridden and abandoned, the pressure is too much for a traumatized Treacle. Gulliver, however, is determined to remain loyal to 'his army'. Only when he is truly alone does he have to decide if he must keep his secrets or explosively have his day in court, and tell the truth about the events of that fateful night.
