Two American filmmakers journey undercover in China and Tibet throughout probably the most precarious occasions within the nation's latest historical past. Their journey begins in hot-bed areas of Tibetan activism in India and Nepal, earlier than persevering with into essentially the most closed off areas of Tibet, throughout the full scale media blackout that started in 2008 and continues to this present day. Their purpose is to satisfy with main Tibetan activists who're risking their lives to peacefully protest in opposition to oppression by the Chinese language authorities's police state in a area stored "at midnight". Touring undercover, a harmful cat-and-mouse recreation unfolds as secret police preserve 24 hour surveillance of the filmmakers. Unable to doc their supposed topics, they're pressured to show the cameras on themselves as they grow to be the targets. All their strikes are adopted, resulting in lodge break-ins, gear theft, and cyber-hacking and spying - finally placing the filmmakers' very lives at risk. Pressured to flee and return to the US.
