After Special Agent Michael Cates testifies against vicious drug lord Jacob Calder, he is put into the witness protection program under the name Chance Bowman as a trucker driving a state-of-the-art long-haul 18-wheeler.
A ruthless couple hijack Chance's truckload of high-definition televisions and leave him to die in the desert, where in his delirium he has visions of his life before his wife was killed in an explosion meant for him.