A child is raised secretly by a gang of thugs in a junker without contact to the exterior. Through a dispute with his boss, he discovers there is an outside world that he does not know.

At the turning point of the Iran-Contra affair, Elena McMahon, a fearless investigative journalist covering the 1984 US presidential campaign, puts herself in danger when she abandons her assigned task in order to fulfill the last wish of her ailing father, a mysterious man whose past activities she barely knows.