Sgt. Brandon King returns, distinguished by a senator with the "Purple Heart" and the "Bronze Star" award, as a hero of the Iraq war in his small hometown in Texas back. His term is over and he tries to continue his old life as he had left it. Especially helpful in this situation are his family and his friend Steve Shriver, who was also in the Iraq war. But then Brandon is recovered by the Army again. He flees with his girlfriend Michelle to Washington DC to ask the senator, who had once received him, to help him out of this situation.