哈里遜福特飾演的傑克萊恩，發現自己置身在天大的謊言當中，所以決定挺身而出破解謎團；追蹤謊言背後的真相。激烈的動作場面和懸疑驚悚的大場面是『福特』迷錯過會終身遺憾的大戲，所有劇中角色的個性和『英雄』特質，在導演的運謀籌略之下，魅力一百，並且避免了一般動作片英雄人物過於『神化』的缺點，『真相』需要一個英雄來維護，而哈里遜福特成功的扮演了這名英雄。

In the crime world of Colombia, there is an unwritten code. When Víctor and Eusebio, two hoods who bungle a shake-down job, break that code, they unwittingly sign their own death sentence.

A miserable Argentine troupe of actors, dancers, musicians, filmmakers and a girl embark on a theatre tour to some country, probably in Latin America.

Marc, an unexperienced medical doctor from Germany arrives at the Hospital Universitario del Valle in Cali, Colombia for his internship and soon finds himself in-between a raging gang war in Siloé, a Cali barrio. In the hospital he has to care mostly for shotgun wounds, while in the streets he falls in love with a stall-holder who cares for some of the children involved in drug trafficking and criminal violence. Alienating his colleagues and his host family while befriending the kids, he soon finds himself trapped in the center of the violent conflict between the gangs and has to come to a decision.

A young boy is forced by his father to kill a horse. As night falls, in shock, the lights flicker and the television displays disturbing images, the boy is drawn to a mysterious light. In a supernatural encounter, his reality fades away.