¿Qué podría ser peor para un padre que la impotencia, cuando al otro lado de una llamada de móvil se encuentra su hija, quien está siendo secuestrada?
Esta es la pesadilla que se hace realidad para Bryan, un espía retirado, que sólo tiene unas horas para recuperar a su hija secuestrada, sin motivo aparente, por una peligrosa banda, especializada en la venta de jóvenes adolescentes.

The seventeen year-old Kim is the pride and joy of her father, the retired agent Bryan Mills that left the secret service to stay near Kim in California. Kim lives with her mother Lenore and her wealthy stepfather Stuart; she convinces the reluctant Bryan to sign an authorization to travel to Paris with her friend Amanda. When they arrive, they share a cab with the stranger Peter and Amanda tells to him that they are alone in Paris. When Bryan succeeds in contacting his daughter, she tells that criminals have just break in the spot and they are kidnapped by an Albanese gang of human trafficking. Bryan promises in the phone to kill the kidnapper of his daughter and immediately travels to Paris to find Kim and chase the criminals.