The owner of the largest casino in Las Vegas decides that his richest customers need something special. He prepares an illegal sweepstakes for them - "Rat Race". The participants of the race are ordinary people, randomly selected from the crowd. They get a chance to get rich: the first to get from Las Vegas to the backwater town of Silver City will get 2 million dollars hidden in a storage locker. None of the applicants has no idea that their every move is being watched by the casino owner and his clients who have made their own bets on the winner ...