Another African crisis has unfolded, and callous officials and concerned bystanders again stand paralyzed. Unlike the Rwandan tragedy of 1994, the genocide in Darfur drags on, transforming Sudan into a landscape of missed opportunities and brutal murder. In 2004, former U.S. Marine Captain Brian Steidle was out to make some quick money when he signed on to become an unarmed military observer for the African Union. Initially assigned to the North-South ceasefire in Sudan, he soon became interested in stories he was hearing about strife in its western region, Darfur. After edging his missions closer to the conflict, he made the life-altering decision to pursue an assignment there. Darfur has suffered the racially motivated massacre of more than 400,000 Sudanese, including many women and children burned alive and mutilated. Two-and-a-half million villagers have fled their homes after seeing their communities incinerated. Accustomed to being a patriotic and armed fighter, twenty-seven-year-old Steidle faced the horror of his six-month contract in Darfur with only his camera. The disturbing and courageous photos he illicitly smuggled out created a media frenzy when they appeared in the op-ed pages of the New York Times. Demonstrating the same humanistic approach and compassionate eye for telling detail as Steidle, filmmakers Annie Sundberg and Ricki Stern (The Trials of Darryl Hunt) bear witness to tragedy as they follow the photographer from his naive arrival in Sudan through his conscience-driven rise as an activist. As he begins to realize that the Sudanese government is complicit in the genocide, he also must come to terms with his own helplessness as an observer, both in Darfur and at home.