A trio of Chinese exchange students arrive in New York City in 1980, eager for what America has to offer. They make friends including a literature teacher and his girlfriend. But as they try to adjust to the New York City atmosphere, they become disillusioned with America, eventually buying a firearm for self-defense.

Action-superstar Dolph Lundgren propels this hard-hitting adventure as a guide hired to lead a band of treasure hunters to locate a priceless Buddhist artifact. Owing large sums of money to the Mongolian mob, Xander Ronson (Lundgren), an ex-Special Forces officer, agrees to lead an obsessed fortune hunter and his men on his dangerous quest for a legendary relic Tangka Tapestry. But great dangers await, not only from a gang of ruthless Russian mercenaries bent on stealing the fabled treasure, but also a deadly curse said to protect the incredibly valuable relic from tomb raiders in this pulse-pounding martial arts-powered action-thriller.