<p><font face="Verdana">Charlie Johnson is an American journalist working for a British news agency somewhere in the Balkans. He believes that over the course of a long career he has seen everything， but suddenly he finds himself more than simply a witness. A woman who has been sheltering Charlie and his crew is doused in gasoline and set on fire. As she stumbles， burning， down the road， Charlie dashes from hiding and throws her down， rolling her over and over to extinguish the flames， and burning his hands in the process. Believing the woman's life to have been saved， Charlie is traumatized by her subsequent death. Something in him snaps. He now realizes he has just one ambition left in life: to find the colonel responsible </font></p>