Tears of the Sun (2003)

the vessel lieutenant a.k. waters and his chosen team of tactical specialists find themselves having to deal with the sense of duty and their conscience and between having to execute orders ignoring the reasons for the conflict in which they are involved and having to instead find the courage to follow the instinct in protecting a group of innocent refugees. when the nigerian democratic government collapses and the country falls into the hands of a ferocious military dictatorship, waters, a loyal and fearless ex-combatant, is sent on one of the usual recovery missions, this time by dr. lena kendricks from the doctors without frontiers department . dr. lena kendricks, an american naturalized by marriage, rescues the victims of the ongoing civil war, at a catholic mission in a remote village in nigeria. when waters arrives in the village, the doctor agrees to leave on the sole condition that he helps the villagers to reach the nearby border to deliver them to political asylum; because if left in the village they would fall into the hands of countless armed rebels. waters is under the strict orders of captain bill rhodes, who ordered him to remain a stranger to the conflict. but waters and his companions, witnesses of rebel brutality, get involved and decide to follow dr. kendricks' cause: they decide to endanger their lives by agreeing to escort the villagers through a dangerous jungle trail. while moving on foot, waters' team, an expert in evasions and hiding, is violently persecuted by armed rebels. disconcerted by these attacks, they then learn that among the refugees there is a survivor of the ruling family before the fall of the government, whose killing had been ordered to the rebels. waters and his small team find themselves having to compare the value of their lives and that of refugees with that of one man.