A LONG TIME FROM HOME is a grim Vietnam War adventure in which a U.S. Army Recon patrol is abandoned under fire by one helicopter and rescued by another, at great cost to the recon team and the rescue-chopper crew. The recon team leader, Sgt. Harry Pitts, wants to know what happened. His effort to discover the ugly truth is complicated by the war on the ground, his role in it, and the 1968 Tet Offensive.