Lieutenant Colonel Sean Drummond, a brazen US Army attorney who isn't afraid to say what needs to be said, finds himself neck-deep in a case he didn't ask to handle. Five American soldiers who were assigned to protect Iraqi detainees have been charged with perpetrating heinous crimes against their victims. Drummond is tasked with defending one of them, a poor young woman who is either shockingly innocent or deceptively terrible. and whose incriminating images turned the situation into a scandal on a global scale.