When Samuel (Ethan Hawke) is torn from his daughter and sent to a brutal prison, Warden Clancy (Russell Crowe) offers him a high-stakes proposition: smuggle gold out of a remote mine with a dangerous crew of prisoners and he'll win his freedom.

Beznadějný romantik dostane přesně to, po čem toužil, ale brzy zjistí, že za některé touhy se platí zlověstnou cenou.