Owen Wilson stars as hydraulic engineer Jack Dwyer, who is relocating from Austin, Texas to a bustling it in an unnamed country in southeast Asia (it's filmed in Thailand) with his wife Annie and two young daughters for a desperately needed job opportunity to work for a company that's supposed to be helping the country supply potable water to their masses. Fish-out-of-water problems take a backseat when a coup breaks out in the country, turning violent and brutal, especially against Americans, whom the locals blame for their issues.