Lieutenant Colonel Sean Drummond, a cocky U.S. Army lawyer who's not afraid to be blunt, finds himself up to his neck in a case he didn't ask to take. Five U.S. soldiers, tasked with guarding Iraqi prisoners, stand accused of committing depraved atrocities against their charges. Drummond is assigned to defend one of them: a hardscrabble young woman who is either incredibly naive or deceptively evil, and whose incriminating photos made the case an international scandal.