Une équipe de Navy SEALs, en mission dans l’Europe en guerre, découvre au fin fond d’un lac un trésor d’une valeur inestimable. Ils entreprennent de ramener l’or à la surface afin de le restituer aux habitants démunis. Mais, repérés par l’ennemi, ils ne disposeront que de quelques heures pour mener à bien leur opération.

The recently divorced father of a nine-year-old, furious his daughter can't spend her birthday with him, bursts into her classroom with a birthday cake and a rifle. A hostage crisis ensues, and the mayor of the town in which the events take place will try to use the situation to gain advantage ahead of the elections, stopping at nothing. The son of a young policeman is in the same class, and before the events unfold, he'll have to answer a question as well.