At the height of the Vietnam war, Captain Benjamin Willard is sent on a dangerous mission that, officially, "does not exist, nor will it ever exist." His goal is to locate - and eliminate - a mysterious Green Beret Colonel named Walter Kurtz, who has been leading his personal army on illegal guerrilla missions into enemy territory.
Keywords: absurd , anti-war , army , awestruck , based-on-novel-or-book , brutality , cambodia , central-intelligence-agency-cia , commanding , descent-into-madness , distressing , drug-abuse , green-beret , guerrilla-warfare , insanity , journalist , jungle , macabre , military , mission , riverboat , secret-mission , surrealism , tribe , vietcong , vietnam , vietnam-war