Cheryl Lynn Brown speaks of her early life, education, military service as a Korean linguist in United States Army Intelligence, and later professional civilian life. Brown primarily discusses her career as a Korean linguist in the United States Army from 1980 and 1984. She gives a detailed description of her training, service, and time spent in South Korea. She also gives a detailed description of the events that followed her realization that she was a lesbian, and the impact that this had on her military service and quality of life. She also tells of serving on the boarder of the Korean Demilitarized Zone." Other topics include her later civilian career as a sociologist, her research into the lives of homosexual individuals who served in the military, and her observations of the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s in Alabama and Mississippi.