A sometime drifter with a bitter past and an uncertain future is stranded in Key West. No matter how good he was at running away, Mile Zero meant that there was nowhere left to go. When he witnesses a smuggling operation people close to him suddenly turn up dead. There seems to be nowhere he can turn; no one he can trust. Desperate, he enlists the one man who just may destroy him. Events come to a climax as hurricane-force winds assault Florida's southernmost island.