On a remote patrol base in Helmand Province of Afghanistan in 2008, Marine Lieutenant Vinny Murphy fights to protect his Marines from the local insurgents and his self-serving Commander, Captain Berry.
A young and ambitious screenwriter pitches her script, The Uprising to a Hollywood executive and we see her story of crime, conspiracies and end of the world prophecies come to life on screen.
After spending decades surviving on the streets of Los Angeles, a group of six homeless men and women join an ambitious new program funded by the government, in the hopes of regaining their very lives.