Top cover girl and fashion model, Jennifer Tree (Elisha Cuthbert) has it all - beauty, fame, money and power. Appearing on covers of hundreds of magazines, Jennifer is America's sweetheart. Everyone wants her.

But someone out there has been watching and waiting. Someone wants her in the worst way. Out alone at a charity event in New York, Jennifer is drugged and taken. Held captive in a cell, she is subjected to a series of terrifying, life-threatening tortures that could only be conceived by a twisted, sadistic mind.

The story of the conflict between slave-traders and Jesuits during the colonisation of South America by Spain and Portugal. In 1750 Jesuit priest Gabriel (Jeremy Irons) arrives in the Amazon to build a mission for the Guarani Indians. He comes into conflict with slave trader Mendoza (Robert De Niro), who kills or captures many of the tribe but escapes punishment due to the fact that he is an aristocrat. However, it transpires that even Mendoza has a conscience when he comes to Gabriel asking for penance.