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This is a powerful and moving true story about the struggles of four soldiers who return home after suffering traumatic brain injuries and PTSD. It is real, it is heartbreaking, it is heartwarming. The film follows four soldiers as they struggle to cope and reintegrate into the world. Their failures and their triumphs. Everyone owes it to all the brave soldiers and marines in combat over the last ten years. Understand just a little of what these men went through for you. Between this film and Restrepo, you will have something of a distant awareness for what our current war is like, and of the incredible quality of the people who choose to serve our country.

The architecture referred to by another reviewer is actually the campus of the University of California at Riverside. It was filmed while I was a student there, during spring break so no students were around. While I loved the film, it was hard to suspend my disbelief looking at buildings I saw every day. We hoped it would take off as a series, since the campus got a paint job, some landscaping, and a few thousand dollars for our scholarship funds in exchange for letting them film. That "futuristic" architecture was mostly built in the early to mid 1960's. But it still has that "future" look. One of my fond memories of my undergraduate alma mater.