Lions For Lambs tells the poignant and layered story of several individuals caught up at various ends of the nation's war on terror - a senator attempting to spin the latest comprehensive strategy to a network news journalist, an idealistic professor trying to convince one of his most promising students to change the course of his life; and two young men, fighting in the snow-capped mountains of Afghanistan, whose desire to live a life of meaning leads them to join the US army and the fight against global terrorism.