He is both agent and weapon – a critical line of defense for the Secretary General of the United Nations. He does not even officially exist. Neil Shaw (Wesley Snipes) is an American agent who must uncover an international plot to bring down the United Nations on the eve of an historic summit with China.

A group of murdered Chinese refugees is found in a container in the New York harbor, setting off a bizarre and mysterious chain of events leading to the murder of the Chinese U.N. Ambassador. When Shaw is accused of the crime, he must go underground – in effect, vanish from his own life, to solve the mystery and clear his name. He can trust no one except a beautiful U.N. translator (Marie Matiko) who may hold the key to a global conspiracy of cataclysmic proportions.