 This movie is an account of US Navy Commander James Stockdale s 8 year imprisonment in North Vietnam. During his confinement in such camps as the infamous "Hanoi Hilton", Stockdale, among other senior officers, led a resistance group against the North Vietnamese, facing torture, isolation, and starvation in attempts to break their wills. Back in the US, Stockdale s wife, Sybil, begins working with other POW wives to try to get information on their husbands and to inform the world on their treatment.