Three philanthropist entrepreneurs decide to take the law into their own hands when they get an anonymous tip-off and learn that the truck carrying the funds in cash, is going to be hijacked.

Inspired by true events, this film takes place in Rwanda in the 1990s when more than a million Tutsis were killed in a genocide that went mostly unnoticed by the rest of the world. Hotel owner Paul Rusesabagina houses over a thousand refuges in his hotel in attempt to save their lives.