At first blush, Michael Martin is hardly cut from heroic cloth. He gets seasick on boats. He gets airsick when he flies. He can't even stand crossing bridges. He's afraid of guns and knives. Cats put him into a tailspin. But he speaks flawless Spanish and he knows northern Colombia like the back of his hand. That's enough for Gayle Saunders. She talks Martin into going with her to Colombia in order to find her missing boyfriend, a hotshot pilot named Johnny Dash who'd hoped to make some fast money in the drug smuggling trade. What Michael Martin doesn't know is that he's not just along for translation. Gayle is using Martin as a pawn to get her boyfriend out of police custody even if it means Martin winds up in jail in his place.