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On June 30, 1969, Lieutenant Jack Hulme of the U.S. Marine Corps was killed in Vietnam, just days before he was to leave the country and see his newborn son for the first time. Thirty years later, John Hulme - the son Jack never met - decided to uncover the truth about the father he never knew.
This moving, highly personal documentary follows filmmaker John Hulme's quest to learn about the life and death of his father, Lt. Jack Hulme, who was killed in Vietnam without ever seeing his newborn son.
After growing up admittedly "feeling nothing" for his father ("he was just a face in a photograph," he says), John finally decided to confront the "father issues" he'd denied for 30 years, and started tracking down family members, childhood friends, and soldiers who fought beside his father in an effort to uncover details about Jack Hulme's life.
What John discovers is that his father lived an exemplary life of patriotism, pride and duty, one that in many ways flew in the face of a rebellious generation's attitudes and aspirations. The search also opens old wounds that remain painfully fresh, especially for John's mother Ellen. Ultimately, and in a fitting climax to the film, John and Ellen travel to Vietnam, to the place where Jack spent the last few moments of his life, in order to finally come to terms with his death.
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