Based on the book “Witness to War: An American Doctor in El Salvador”, the film, which won awards both at the Oscars and in Leipzig, tells the story of the deeply religious Vietnam veteran Charlie Clements. The son of a military family, he first embarked on a career as a high-ranking soldier and flew numerous supply missions in the Vietnam War, only to finally make a radical turn. In 1970, he refused to serve, was discharged from the Air Force and studied medicine. In the early 1980s, he ended up on the side of the guerrilla in El Salvador, one of the “new Vietnams” of interventionist US foreign policy, as contemporary critics put it. The film is about how both wars reverberated back in the United States.