Kiefer Sutherland is an assassin with a razor-sharp edge. Sutherland, dubbed the world's best professional killer, lives a life of alienated seclusion until he is assigned a mission that matches him with a seductive hitchhiker (Melora Walters). Soon, he discovers that there is more to her than meets the eye, as he becomes further enmeshed in a web of lethal lies and double-crosses.