In 1980, a group of Catholic activists broke into the General Electric Nuclear Missile Re-Entry Division in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, poured blood on documents and damaged two of the weapons with hammers. Dubbed “The Plowshares Eight,” they faced trial for burglary, trespassing and assault. Employing both fiction and nonfiction filmmaking techniques, de Antonio reconstructs the events of the trial based on its original transcripts, with the activists portraying themselves and actors such as Martin Sheen, a noted pacifist activist in his own right, in supporting roles. Although this was not his most successful work, de Antonio took great pride in bringing to light one of the great miscarriages of justice in American history.