Sergeant Emily Sanders lived and breathed her motto of always forward in everything she did. In 2004, she kissed her then four-year old daughter-Tara, goodbye while she embarked on a twelve-month combat deployment to Iraq. Sanders never made it home from her deployment, and was considered missing in action for eight years following the ambush of her military convoy. The Army had no choice but to declare her killed in action. Tara Sanders, never believed her mother was dead and is now all grown up and setting out on her own mission to find out the truth about what happened to Emily Sanders. After all, Tara lives and breathes by the same motto as her mother- Always Forward.