Iraq, Operation Desert Storm, and Sergeant Raymond Shaw (Liev Schreiber) rescued all but two members of his unit. This action made him a war hero and launched him into politics.
Several years later all the other surviving members of the platoon feel that although they remember that Shaw rescued them, they cannot remember him actually doing it. Sergeant Shaw is now a successful politician and he's been nominated as the Vice President of the United States.Major Bennet Marco (Denzel Washington) was the commander of the unit and he begins investigating the case on his own.
Soon it is revealed that the desert incident never actually happened and that all the members of the unit had been brainwashed. The culprit: A large multinational corporation of powerful men around the globe. Their objective: To put a candidate who is under their hypnotic control into the White House.
Bennet Marco tries all he can to stop the corporation from achieving their aim, but he is totally unaware that he too had been brainwashed and that he has his own role to play in the plan of the corporation's conspiracy.
