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.

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.