Action thriller follows the former FBI Hostage Rescue Team leader and U.S. war veteran Will Sawyer who has lost his left leg below the knee when he encounters a hostage taker with a suicide bomb. Now Sawyer is a private security consultant who assesses security for skyscrapers. He is hired to review security for the world's tallest skyscraper, Hong Kong's 225 floor tower, "The Pearl". His wife and kids stay with him on the not-yet-opened residential floors. But the safest building in the world suddenly ablaze and he's been framed for it. Sawyer must find and punish those responsible, clear his name and rescue his family who are trapped inside the building.