After years of saving money, Ra’ad, an Iraqi portrait photographer, plans to open his own studio. On the night of the opening, he volunteers to guard an ancient mosque and is shot and killed by an American patrol. Andrew Berends’ vérité portrait goes inside the Shia insurgency to examine the ripple effect of the loss of a single human life in a region where thousands have died. The filmmaker’s observational gaze is appropriate in that he neither romanticizes nor condemns his subjects as they cope with the tragedy of war.