Lee Harvey Oswald wants to matter.

As a young Marine stationed at Atsugi Naval Air Facility in Japan, Oswald is read into classified U-2 radar work and warned that betrayal of secrets could cost him his life. Lonely, arrogant, and desperate to be seen as exceptional, he becomes fascinated by communism and the Soviet Union after another Marine plants the idea that true patriots sometimes pretend to be traitors in order to infiltrate America’s enemies. Oswald takes the lesson to heart. He begins alienating fellow Marines with pro-Soviet talk, positioning himself as a man willing to be hated if it means being chosen for a secret mission.