Character Relationship Map: Redacted

Characters

• Angel Salazar (played by Izzy Diaz) — protagonist

  Angel Salazar is a young United States Army soldier and aspiring filmmaker who records his deployment in Iraq with a camcorder. He films the checkpoint and later the rape and murders, becomes disturbe...

• Lawyer McCoy (played by Rob Devaney) — protagonist

  Lawyer McCoy is a married, college-educated soldier who is disgusted by Reno Flake's indifference toward killing a pregnant woman. He accompanies Flake and B.B. Rush to the Iraqi family's house, tries...

• Master Sergeant Sweet (played by Ty Jones) — supporting

  Master Sergeant Sweet is an experienced soldier serving with the platoon in Iraq. During a foot patrol, he is killed after stepping on an improvised explosive device. His death becomes the immediate t...

• Soldier (played by Dhiaa Khalil) — supporting
• Pregnant Woman (played by Hiyam Abdel Karim) — minor

  The Pregnant Woman is a passenger in a car that approaches the soldiers' checkpoint while she is in labor. Reno Flake fires on the vehicle when it continues forward, and she is taken to a hospital by...

• Pregnant Woman's Brother (played by Issam Shamary) — minor

  The Pregnant Woman's Brother drives her toward a hospital because she is in labor. He misunderstands the soldiers' commands and believes the car is cleared to proceed, causing the checkpoint incident...

Canonical Relationships

Family, romantic, and professional connections based on plot evidence.

• Pregnant Woman's Brother → Pregnant Woman (brother)
• Angel Salazar → Master Sergeant Sweet (Professional Unit Members) — They are connected through the same deployment and military unit, though the plot does not show a personal relationship between them.

  Salazar is serving with the unit based at Camp Carolina, while Master Sergeant Sweet is identified as an experienced soldier from that deployed force...

• Lawyer McCoy → Master Sergeant Sweet (Professional Military Colleagues) — Sweet's death contributes to the deteriorating moral and emotional climate affecting McCoy and the other soldiers.

  McCoy and Sweet are both members of the deployed U.S. Army force in Iraq, and Sweet is killed during a foot patrol involving the unit.

Story Dynamics

Alliances, conflicts, and narrative interactions that evolve throughout the story.

• Soldier → Pregnant Woman (Conflict Civilian Casualty) — The relationship represents the lethal encounter between the occupying military force and a civilian woman.

  At a checkpoint, a soldier operating an M2 machine gun fires on a speeding car, striking the pregnant woman inside. She is taken to a hospital and lat...

• Angel Salazar → Lawyer McCoy (Alliance Uneasy Allies) — They cooperate against abuses within their unit, although Salazar's decision to film the crime and McCoy's attempt to intervene create tension.

  Salazar and McCoy jointly challenge Flake's response to the shooting. McCoy later accompanies Flake and Rush to the Iraqi family's house in an attempt...

Story Analysis

The film follows soldiers whose recorded violence, silence, and competing narratives reveal the moral and psychological damage of war.

Plot Progression

1. Cameras At The Checkpoint — Salazar begins filming his deployment while the unit performs checkpoint searches. A shooting kills a pregnant civilian and exposes the gap between military procedure and human consequence.
2. The Unit Turns Toward Revenge — The soldiers struggle with Sweet's death after an explosive attack. Grief and anger lead to a revenge plan directed at an Iraqi family.
3. Recorded Atrocity — The planned raid becomes a rape and mass killing. McCoy is forced outside, while Salazar's hidden camera preserves evidence of the crime.
4. Witnesses Under Pressure — McCoy faces threats and pressure not to report what happened. Both McCoy and Salazar seek ways to confront the psychological and institutional consequences.
5. The War Comes Home — Salazar is kidnapped and murdered in a retaliatory video, while the Army investigates the crimes and arrests the accused soldiers. Back home, McCoy finally recounts the atrocity in tears.