A homeless Vietnam vet risks his life to save a young girl when a gang of vicious ex-cons snatches her from her home and takes her to an abandoned building to await a $100 million ransom.

SYNOPSIS:

Gunny is a homeless Vietnam vet who lives on the top floor of an abandoned 6-story hotel in a derelict area of Detroit. He lives day to day with what little money he’s able to make working a few hours a week at a struggling thrift shop. His only friend in the world is a young junkie who lives in the building among the other twenty-plus homeless squatters.

After nearly 40 years of living on the streets, Gunny has faced plenty of challenges but none that come close to his experience during the war… until today…

Recently released from prison after serving 19 years for an attempted bank robbery, Nick Cavanaugh sets out to get the payday he was denied almost 2 decades ago by Ben Cahill, the security guard who foiled the robbery and has since worked his way up the ladder to become the president of the very bank he protected. Nick's plan: Gather a dozen ex-cons to kidnap Ben's daughter, Molly, and give him 24 hours to rob his own bank for the $100 million ransom... or Molly dies.

Taking Molly to an abandoned 6-story hotel in an isolated and derelict area of Detroit, Nick orders his men to kill the homeless squatters who inhabit the old building to eliminate any witnesses. But Nick's plan has a devious twist: once he gets his money, he plans to burn down the building, killing Molly and his gang to cover his getaway. Nick's plan soon hits a snag, however, when Gunny starts fighting back against his gunmen. Having served with Marine Force Recon in Vietnam, Gunny spent a considerable amount of time as a tunnel rat single-handedly clearing out tunnel networks sometimes armed with only his combat knife and a sidearm.

After liberating her from her captors, Gunny keeps Molly moving through the building, hiding her in various rooms while he falls back on his combat training to take out the gang one by one. However, because her mother was murdered by a homeless man during a home invasion a decade earlier, Molly quickly proves to be just as much of a challenge when she gives him resistance almost immediately. It's only when she finally witnesses, first-hand, how this old man is willing to shed his own blood to keep her alive while outnumbered by a much younger enemy, that she comes to trust him.

As the long day turns to night, in the coming darkness, Gunny finds himself in his element as he moves through the darkened halls of the 6-story labyrinth, setting booby traps and waging a one-man war to protect Molly and, hopefully, find reconciliation against the demons of his past.

Outnumbered, outgunned, and definitely “out-youthed”, the ailing, seasoned old warrior calls upon combat and survival skills he hasn't used in 40 years to prove that he still has the mettle worthy of a hero… mettle worthy of a U.S. Marine… Mettle of Honor.