With the outbreak of the Great War, it soon became apparent that air power would play an important and strategic role in the area of world conflict.

Devasted by a failed hostage situation which resulted in the deaths of a young mother and her child, LAPD negotiator Jeff Talley (Bruce Willis) exits Los Angeles for a no profile job as chief of police in the low crime hamlet of Bristo Camino,a small town in Ventura County.