Annie Dwyer (Lake Bell), her husband, Jack (Owen Wilson), and two daughters move to a Southeast Asian country when her husband accepts a job at an American engineering firm. Not long after arriving they find themselves in the middle of a violent uprising. As the family desperately fights to escape the vicious attacks and flee the country, Annie goes to extreme lengths to keep her family safe, even if that means acting out of character for their chance of survival; from catching her daughter after being thrown from a building to attacking a man holding her daughter at gunpoint. There is nothing Annie wont do for her children.