The Ho Chi Minh Trail is the most quoted legend of the Vietnam War. Now for the first time a westerner travels through the jungle landscape which concealed the troops, armaments and supplies as they headed south. Against massive American bombing and fire power, they had one dedicated aim — the liberation of Saigon and the unification of the country. Magnum photographer Philip Jones Griffiths, who recorded the war, makes an emotional journey awakening memories of a struggle that not only scarred the people but the conscience of the world. Picking his way through the still present debris of battle, he meets the Vietnamese who built the trail, journeyed and fought on it.