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In a mountainous South American country, drug-dealing rebels kidnap Peter
Bowman, a US engineer who works for an oil company's subsidiary. The
company calls in a negotiator, Terry Thorne, an Aussie ex-soldier based in
London. When the subsidiary goes bankrupt, the oil company washes its
hands of the matter and pulls Thorne. Bowman's wife Alice begs him to
stay. She and Peter's sister cobble together some money, Thorne talks
ransom terms with the cash-strapped rebels, and Peter, chained high in the
mountains, is sustained by a photo of Alice. When the politics of the situation
change, so must Thorne's strategy. And what can Alice and he do about the
attraction growing between them?