During the Vietnam war, a girl is taken from her village by five American soldiers. Four of the soldiers rape her, but the fifth refuses. The young girl is killed. The fifth soldier is determined that justice will be done. The film is more about the realities of war, rather than this single event.

For Michael J. Fox's shots, Sean Penn would be telling him that he was just a little TV actor and nothing more, to get genuine reactions for director Brian De Palma.

Eriksson:
Pardon me sir, what's your point, sir?


Hill:
There ain't no point, Eriksson. I'm simply trying to illuminate the terrain in which we currently find ourselves deployed. You don't mind that, do you? And if you do, FUCK YOU! You on my frequency?


Eriksson:
Yes SIR!

Continuity: When a soldier steps on a landmine, other soldiers takes a picture of his corpse. Erikkson and one soldier goes to look that corpse which now lies on an opposite side of the road.

Written by Irving Taylor & Ken Lane