"Costa Gavras is a beautiful country, once you get past the land mines and 60mm mortars in the jungle waiting behind the white sand beaches. Lush vegetation, clear skies with clean air, warm weather all year round, weak economy -- it would be a primo tourist resort for an enterprising businessman. If I'd been there as a tourist instead of a soldier, I might even have liked the place. But I wasn't, and I didn't. If you know what I mean..."
Or so says William "Billy" Markham, U.S. Army Special Forces, on a mission to recover the classified contents of a spy plane. He knows if he's caught, it means more than just his death -- it means the death of countless innocent people in a place far from his home. Falling in with a group of brave but struggling freedom fighters, Billy realizes that there's more at stake than be bargained for.