When Steve Mitchell is clandestinely sent to the US embassy in Bucharest, Romania to disarm a nuclear bomb that has secretly remained in the building since the end of the Cold War, little does he know that other problems will soon erupt. He must join Erica Long, a diplomatic attaché who is not all that she appears, to work together on setting the correct computer code that will disable the weapon and accomplish the mission. But while watching video monitors from inside a long-forgotten surveillance room, Steve witnesses a surprising deadly takeover of the building by the Serbian Liberation Front.

大卫的摇滚明星哥哥死于服药过量，这件事给了大卫非常大的打击，使他从此变得意志消沉。大卫的父母无奈之下，将其送去了青少年行为管制所，希望他能有所转变。然而那里就像是一个人间地狱，虐待成性的长官与随从让大卫非常不适应。直到有一天，大卫遇见了乔纳森——几年前死于管制所的同屋人，事情终于开始有所转变……