Petra Epperlein and Michael Tucker have spent the last decade examining the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan through documentary film: Gunner Palace, The Prisoner or: How I Planned to Kill Tony Blair, Bulletproof Salesman, and this year’s How to Fold a Flag. Featuring a second war—the battle American soldiers face when they come home and try to resume a so-called normal life—the new film follows four men who served together in Iraq, along with the parents of a fallen soldier from their division. Jon Powers, running for Congress, is being smeared by his opponents. Michael Goss struggles with depression and finds release in cage fighting. Wilf Stuart, a death metal guitarist, works nights at a convenience store. Javorn Drummond works in a hog processing plant. Haunted by images of combat, all are marked by a profound sense of dislocation and inexorable loss. As Javorn says, “We went to war as a unit and came home alone.”  ST