In a mountainous South American country, drug-dealing rebels kidnap Peter Bowman, a US engineer who works for an oil company's subsidiary. The company calls in a negotiator, Terry Thorne, an Aussie ex-soldier based in London. When the subsidiary goes bankrupt, the oil company washes its hands of the matter and pulls Thorne. Bowman's wife Alice begs him to stay. She and Peter's sister cobble together some money, Thorne talks ransom terms with the cash-strapped rebels, and Peter, chained high in the mountains, is sustained by a photo of Alice. When the politics of the situation change, so must Thorne's strategy. And what can Alice and he do about the attraction growing between them? Written by {jhailey@hotmail.com}

	Meg Ryan	...	Alice Bowman
	Russell Crowe	...	Terry Thorne
	David Morse	...	Peter Bowman
	Pamela Reed	...	Janis Goodman
	David Caruso	...	Dino
	Anthony Heald	...	Ted Fellner
	Stanley Anderson	...	Jerry
	Gottfried John	...	Eric Kessler
	Alun Armstrong	...	Wyatt
	Michael Kitchen	...	Ian Havery
	Margo Martindale	...	Ivy
	Mario Ernesto Sánchez	...	Arturo Fernandez (as Mario Ernesto Sanchez)
	Pietro Sibille	...	Juaco
	Vicky Hernández	...	Maria (as Vicky Hernandez)
	Norma Martínez	...	Norma (as Norma Martinez)