Someone carefully rolls up a carpet inside a destroyed hotel room. On the wall, a huge hole overlooks a city in ruins. It is Baghdad, in 2003. A few weeks earlier, two thousand journalists had traveled to Iraq to cover the war that had sparked the most widespread social opposition since Vietnam, a war declared illegal by the UN and which had led to massive demonstrations around the world calling for “No to War.” Among those correspondents are reporter Jon Sistiaga and cameraman José Couso. Their friendship becomes their only real refuge from fear, censorship, and bombs. They evade the surveillance of Saddam's regime, dodge threats, and fight to tell the Spanish media the truth about the conflict through reports that break audience records. When the US invasion begins, Jon and José are among the few journalists who do not leave the country and barricade themselves in the Palestine Hotel. From their room, they narrate the fall of Baghdad with a privileged view that also makes them an unexpected target. What seemed like a peaceful invasion due to the lack of Iraqi resistance turns into tragedy when one of the American tanks aims its cannon at the hotel and fires a shell directly at the balcony where José is filming. The impact leaves a huge hole in the wall of the room, in which only a carpet, bought by Jon and José together in a Baghdad market, can be saved.