The footage which constitutes this short documentary was shot all in one day - Tuesday 13th December 1967. The film shows what happened to the North Vietnamese people in the course of it. It opens with a look back into history describing the Vietnames struggle for independence throughout the centuries against various invaders. Next follows a satirical montage on the biography of Lyndon Johnson. In the following the film goes back to Vietnam describing a hard-working people that lives in complete harmony with nature. These idyllic scenes are interrupded by the appearance of American warplanes. The well-trained field workers go into their battle drill, firing their rifles into the air. The scene shifts from contry-life to the buzzing city of Hanoi. The everyday city-life is turned into chaos by a sudden air-raid leaving behind dazed, grieving women, children with severe wounds, homes flattened and statues of ancient gods in ruins. The following sequence consists of still photos and movie images of downed US aircrew being paraded in disgrace as POW's. It closes with makeshift GI graves, each dead man's M16 stuck in the dirt as a crude memorial, with his helmet sitting atop. The film ends with calm columns of NVA recruits entraining for the war zone. There are no draft-dodgers and no protesters, just a long snaking line of young volunteers, seemingly happy to be defending their homeland.