An ambitious female television reporter is driving through New Mexico when she hears that a Texas millionaires teenage daughter has been kidnapped. Knowing that the girls father lives nearby, she quickly lines up an interview. Stopping at a convenience store to make a call, the kidnapper and his willing victim take her hostage along with several others. The stakes are raised considerably when the FBI surrounds the building full of hostages, and the reporter must keep everyone alive and deliver the truth behind the headlines to the public before a volatile standoff turns to tragedy