An intercultural love story of desperation and forgiveness.When a Russian pilot crashes his jet in the mountains of Laos, young Garret Hanes, a U.S. army intelligence specialist, is sent to question him. But Garret and his Special Forces escort are captured by communist North Vietnamese soldiers. Threatened with torture by their leader, Colonel Tran, Garret is forced to trek with enemy soldiers on their secret mission to ambush American troops. When his guard, the female Lieutenant Le, reveals a more compassionate side of the Vietnamese independence movement, Garret becomes dangerously infatuated with her, even as he hopes to escape from his captors.