A soldier in full camouflage and a hood kneels in a desert, holding a radio, while a dog lies at his side; the scene cuts to another soldier in a helmet and camouflage aiming a rifle from behind a sand barrier, then to a vehicle's interior view of a large explosion in the desert, followed by a street scene with a massive plume of smoke rising in the distance, and finally to a view from inside a moving vehicle traveling along a winding road through a mountainous, arid landscape.