Plot: It's sometime in the recent past. After his wife Maria and adolescent son Christian are killed in a Muslim fundamentalist terror attack at a civilian target that many officials frequent in Paris, Joshua Rose, working in the US foreign service, takes decisive measures to avenge their deaths. The most broad of those measures is joining the Foreign Legion under the given name Guy - he completing his training in 1987 - and assigning himself to fight in Bosnia in 1993 in the Balkan War, acting as a sniper for the Serb forces in an excuse to shoot to kill Muslims almost at will. He seems unmoved not only by anyone he kills, not knowing if they were just in the wrong place at the wrong time or truly Muslim warriors, but also by the brutal acts of murder committed by others around him. Things begin to change when he encounters Vera, a pregnant young woman who is trying to make her way home in what was the most recent prisoner swap between the Serbs and Muslim Bosniaks. All he knows about her is what he is told: that she was impregnated being raped by a soldier. As such, she seems not to care either about her life or by association that of her baby. In his redemption, he, in her home not being an option, does whatever it takes to get Vera and the baby to the Red Cross refugee office in Split, regardless of her wants and their lives at greater risk as their trip progresses.
Alternative Plot: After military specialist Joshua Rose (Dennis Quaid) loses his wife (Nastassja Kinski) and son in a terrorist bomb attack in Paris, he joins the Foreign Legion as a form of revenge against Muslims. He ends up an anonymous mercenary in Bosnia, fighting with the Serbs, but his resolve is tested by the cruelty and horror of ethnic cleansing. When Joshua encounters Vera (Natasa Ninkovic), a young, pregnant Serbian woman due to be killed for her "dishonor," he finds a reason to fight.
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