A group of unauthorized war reporters goes to a guerilla war zone, rumored to the most bloodiest, morbidly interested in the horrid tales about the local militants the government had warned them beforehand, and they are left seeing a spree of bloody results of atrocity after atrocity.

At first, there’s a handful of guerilla fighters but what they do doesn’t seem congruent with the bloody atrocities; in fact, while stealthily observing them, they’re as confused and horrified as the news crew by the atrocities. At the end, they encounter this rogue group that captures and kills in their vicinity any civilians and guerilla forces, and mutilates them off-screen, and doing the same to dead gov’t soldiers, though they aren’t shown to be killing any of them. When the news crew, still mostly intact, sneaks out safely and in fact meets an incoming squad of gov’t troops, hoping to report the grisly tales with the evidence they have at hand, they get shot at, and what’s left of the surviving reporters runs away from the troops.

One survivor, who still remains in the area hidden, takes a recording of the troops that shot at the reporters, and the troops greet the ‘rogue’ unit casually at their campfire-lit base in the night. Those mutilating ‘rogue militants’, earlier, turns out to not be just allied to them but part of the state-sanctioned paramilitaries against the insurgency. A few of the killed reporters’ corpses just hang in the background, by a tree because the ‘rogue’ units procrastinate from continuing their mutilation plans, and besides the mundane chatter, only the sound of crickets and the crackling fire fills in the silence. The camera of this person recording cuts mid-way, and the reporter who recorded it and whom we took their POV in this last scene, their fate is left unknown.

You know what’d be darkly funny. If it was indicated that the reporter, who was recording, and assuming we take his POV, had mentioned or someone else mentioned earlier that their camera was kinda low on power.

Note - this plot was inspired by US-backed death squads.

After that cut, the credits roll in, and we get to see the cast’s photos, albeit it’s vague if the credits are in character or not. I mean, cursory search of the names will only reveal the names are fictional [or maybe not; perhaps the actors used their real name for the movie].

It’s as if we watched a documentary, for whom the movie was the leftover footage from the events that occurred.