Synopsis:

 

On May 20th, 1997, the team leader of a four-man US Marine unit conducting a counter-narcotics mission near the remote border-town of Redford, Texas shot and killed 18-year-old Esequiel Hernández, Jr. while he tended his family's herd of goats within sight of his home. It was the first time an American citizen had been killed on US soil by the active-duty military or national guard since the Vietnam War protests. None of the marines was ever charged with a crime.

 

 

 

 

 

Compelled by the current political climate on the US-Mexico Border, the marines from the '97 mission agreed to be interviewed for the first time. The film contrasts their frustration and guilt at having killed one of the citizens they were pledged to protect with the anger and grief of a family whose son died at the hands of their own military.