An ex-CIA "preventer" faced with recovering his daughter after she is kidnapped by sex-traffickers in Paris, France.
Bryan is a divorced, former US intelligence agent whose 17-year-old daughter Kim lives with his ex-wife Lenore and her new wealthy husband Stuart. Bryan’s skill and quick-thinking are demonstrated when he agrees to escort pop diva Sheerah; the diva is attacked, but Bryan efficiently disables a knife-wielding assailant and gets her safely out of danger. Thankful, Sheerah expresses some interest in Bryan’s daughter and furnishes him with some contacts to get Kim’s career started.
The next day we discover that Kim wants to take a vacation in Europe with her friend Amanda to follow U2’s European tour. Kim’s mother has no objections, but Kim also needs permission from her father. Arriving in Paris, a seemingly friendly young man named Peter proposes to share a taxi with Kim and Amanda to the house where they are staying; the girls agree gladly.
In the house, Kim receives a phone call from her father, which she answers in the bathroom. From the bathroom window she sees men entering the main room and abducting Amanda. Bryan is able to gain critical information about the kidnappers in the final moments after Kim is kidnapped by telling her to shout out everything about them that she notices. Briefly, Bryan talks to one of the kidnappers, warning him that unless Kim is released, he will pursue him and kill him; the kidnapper wishes him "good luck" before smashing the daughter’s phone.