As leader of a United Nations mission to Rwanda in 1993, Canadian General Romeo Dallaire was charged with keeping the peace between warring tribes. He quickly discovered that there was no peace to keep. Within months, Dallaire found himself witnessing the worst genocide since the Second World War-and powerless to stop it. The general pleaded with U.N. leadership to authorize military action to prevent an all-out offensive by the ruling Hutus against the Tutsis, but member nations-notably the United States, gun-shy after its disastrous 1993 operation in Somalia-refused to intervene. In just a hundred days, while the rest of the world stood by, 800,000 people were systematically murdered. This important documentary is a measured, detailed recounting of a tragedy and an indictment of the governments that might have prevented it. It is also a wrenching emotional study of a devastated man. While Dallaire is considered a hero by many, in interviews he insists on his own failure, reminding us that sometimes, individual idealism is not enough.