Former Special Forces soldier Mason Pettits is bored to death with his job at a mediocre law firm and his everyday life as a family man. When his old military buddy and boss of a dubious private security firm offers him a job as a bodyguard for the award-winning journalist Claire Wellington, he doesn't hesitate for a second and accepts the assignment. The job is to protect Claire on her trip to the South American country of Paldonia, where she is to be the first journalist ever to meet the notorious dictator Juan Arturo Venegas for an interview. But the interview is unexpectedly interrupted by a military coup, and Claire and her bodyguard have to flee into the jungle with a mad dictator ...