Academy Award(r) winner Gene Hackman (THE FRENCH CONNECTION) stars as Robert Caulfield, a district attorney struggling to convince an unwilling murder witness (Anne Archer, FATAL ATTRACTION) to testify against a top-level mob boss. To save his witness from the deadly grip of two hit men, Robert takes the only escape - a Vancouver-bound train. But what Robert doesn"t know is that the killers have boarded the train with them, setting in motion a deadly game of cat and mouse. Will Robert and his witness fall victim to the mob, or can they survive the next 20 hours and live to see the next stop?