Travis is the son of a wealthy southern California based restaurant mogul who also dabbles in the high-risk world of money laundering and illegal gambling. After Travis drops out of college to search for ancient artifacts, without consulting his father, Beck (Dwayne Johnson) is hired by Travis' father to hunt down and retrieve his son. However; Travis has made his home in the jungle villages and towns of Brazil while searching for an artifact known as el gatto and he has no plans on leaving empty handed, especially to return to his gangster father.