The USS Toledo—led by young, untested Captain Joe Glass—heads to the location where a new Russian sub sank in a thousand feet of freezing water under the polar ice cap, only to be followed by an American nuclear submarine.
Glass soon finds out the incident wasn't an accident. He teams up with U.S. Navy Seals to find the Russian President, who is being held captive by a rogue general in an attempt to start World War III and reunite the Soviet Union. It's up to Glass to rescue the president, avenge the deaths of the American sailors and avert another world war.
Based on the novel "Firing Point," by Don Keith and George Wallace.