The quintessential hero, the truth teller in the face of power, vilified, ostracized, imprisoned, rotting in a UK jail awaiting extradition for a crime that he never committed to serve as a warning to others who would tell us the truth.
A small group of Wikileaks journalists make their way through Central Asia interviewing newspaper editors. Their real goal: to find local media outlets to publish secret US diplomatic cables. This intelligent, guerrilla-style doc follows their fascinating journey from Afghanistan to Manhattan, through the boundaries of free speech and the minds of those who shape our understanding of the world.