Dying slowly was yesterday! Barely awake and got up, Chev Chelios feels extremely uncomfortable when he inserts a previously unknown DVD with the inscription "Fuck you" into the player. Gangster Ricky Verona appears on the screen, who explains dry to him via video message and shows how he poisoned him with a Chinese high-tech drug while sleeping.
Chev is a contract killer and works for a significant syndicate on the West Coast. His zero-eight-fifteen assignment from last night, which he was supposed to perform like anyone else, ran differently than planned by his boss: Chev purposely missed his goal because he wants to hang his job as a contract killer on the nail. He wants to start a new life with his girlfriend Eve. But his employer does not seem to like the idea.
When Chev finally reaches his buddy and doctor Doc Miles, he immediately suspects what flows in the veins of the poisoned and explains to him that he will live at most an hour and definitely die if he slows his pulse even for just a minute.
With poison in the body, the girlfriend also floating in danger in her head, the hot desire for revenge and looking for an antidote, Chev beats through Los Angeles, leaving behind a path of devastation. Nothing that stands in his way is safe from him.
Time is running and Chev literally has to keep moving to survive: the only way to stop the poison is continuous adrenaline rushes..