A hired gun wants to complete his last big job--killing a sheriff who hides away inside an old monastery--so he can retire with a prostitute.
An American interpreter wins a trip to the Middle East. On the trip, she meets an adventurer who is taking the body of a deposed African leader home to its final resting place. She hires the adventurer to be her tour guide, which results in a much more interesting vacation than she expected.
After a fundraiser for a black politician is robbed, Detroit police put two detectives, one white and one black, on the case, who try to work together under boiling political pressure.
