In the shadowy world of international finance, a desperate man makes a dangerous gamble. Ryan Phillippe stars as Martijn, an ambitious aid worker in Morocco who orchestrates the kidnapping of his own employer, a wealthy piano teacher, seeing it as his only escape from poverty. He hires a team of local criminals to carry out the plan, aiming for a swift and clean ransom. However, the operation spirals into a tense and bloody nightmare when the teacher is accidentally killed, forcing Martijn to improvise a new, more audacious scheme. His path soon collides with a relentless and cunning investigator, played by Laurence Fishburne, who begins to unravel the conspiracy thread by thread. Directed by Laurence Malkin, this gripping drama-thriller weaves a complex web of deception and moral compromise, where every decision carries a lethal consequence and trust is the most volatile currency of all.