Colonel James Braddock (Chuck Norris) is a US military officer who spent seven years in a North Vietnamese POW camp, then escaped 10 years ago. After the bloodiest war, Braddock accompanies a government investigation team that goes to Ho Chi Minh City to check out reports of US soldiers still held prisoner.

Braddock gets the evidence then travels to Thailand, where he meets Tuck (M. Emmet Walsh), an old Army buddy turned black market kingpin. Together, they launch a mission deep into the jungle to free the US POW’s from General Trau played by Hero of Cult James Hong.