Bob Weldon (Ewan McGregor) is an American journalist whose marriage failed. In desperation, he came to the Middle East and tried to sneak into Iraq to report on the war in order to win back his ex-wife. In Kuwait, Bob met Lynn Cassady (George Clooney), a private builder he had heard of in previous interviews, and begged the latter to take him across the border. Lynn was a special soldier of the U.S. Army's "Earth Spirit Force". Under the special training method of Vietnam War veteran hippie Bill Deonge (James Bridges), he sought "Jedi superpowers" and defeated the enemy with his mind; until the soldier Larry Hopper (Kevin Spacey) joined and changed the training policy of the "Earth Spirit Force". Bob followed Lynn and experienced a series of ridiculous accidents and events in Iraq. Does Lynn really have "Jedi superpowers"?