1. Ray Breslin is a security expert who tests maximum security prisons to find weaknesses and ensure criminals stay locked up. He is captured and sent to a secret prison on a cargo ship.
2. In the prison, Breslin allies with fellow inmate Emil Rottmayer. They study the prison and devise an escape plan.
3. Breslin and Rottmayer cause a riot as a distraction to escape. They battle guards and make it off the ship by helicopter.