It stars Christopher Walken as journalist Don Stevens, who is set up amidst the Lebanese Civil War and is fed false information.

Ace Reporter Don Stevens (Christopher Walken) is an American journalist who goes to Beirut, Lebanon during the Lebanese Civil War.

He is promised an interview with a top PLO leader, Palestinian Yassin Abu-Riadd (Amos Lavi).

Tricked and beaten, he gradually uncovers a murder plot, double agents, the bombing of the Phalangists headquarters and, most terrifying of all, a plan to massacre hundreds of civilians.

In a story that takes the lid off events in Lebanon, Don Stevens becomes a reluctant hero, and in doing so, gets the scoop of a lifetime.