Solo (Mario Van Peebles) is the perfect soldier: the best killing machine money can buy, made not of flesh and blood but of polymers and computer chips. He is the government's ultimate covert weapon, except for one thing: He has been programmed with the ability to think and learn. On a secret mission in Latin America, Solo begins to develop a conscience, which leads General Haynes (Barry Corbin) to send the ruthless Colonel Madden (William Sadler) and his team of killers to retrieve the android. When Madden's pursuit leads him to the village where Solo has taken refuge, the two become locked in a contest that will determine not only their fate, but the fate of an entire community of people who have taught Solo what it truly means to be human.