Bryan Mills is a retired CIA agent who left his espionage job in attempt to reconnect with his beloved daughter Kim in California. To mark her seventeenth, Kim travels to Paris with her friend without knowing that they are soon kidnapped by an Albanian gang of human traffickers. Fortunately, Kim gets a minute to call her father and gives him clues for help before being captured. Now, Bryan with little hints and his brilliant spy skills, traveling through Europe imbarks on his life's most important rescue mission.