Under the Wire is a documentary about the war correspondent Marie Colvin. It is also, just as much, a film about her photographer colleague Paul Conroy. Having worked on many assignments together, they travelled to Syria in February 2012. The country was closed to the outside world and caught up, as it is now, in a vicious civil war.
Soon after her arrival, Colvin was killed while reporting on the conflict, a victim of the relentless bombardment of Homs. Her loss, one among so many in that country, hit the headlines because Colvin had been writing from various theatres of wars for more than two decades while working for The Sunday Times. And, as in so many of her previous war assignments, she was determined to report on what was really happening from the middle of the battle zone, whatever the personal risk.
