This documentary deals with the destiny of José Antonio Gutierrez, the first fallen soldier of the US army in the war with Iraq. His picture goes around the world. Like about 32.000 others he fights as greencard-soldier for a foreign native country and dies only a few hours after the beginning of the war. The film tells the sad story of the street urchin from Guatemala, that is looking for a better life in the United States and finds his death as an American hero.