When a twenty-one year-old Air Force photographer is framed by his own military intelligence and thrown into a Turkish prison, he must shed every illusion about American justice to engineer his survival — exposing the corrupt court machinery, faking a breakdown, and outwitting the system that betrayed him. What emerges from the crucible is not the young man who volunteered for adventure, but a fearless man who turns the worst year of his life into the first raw material of a filmmaking career.