The riveting premiere trailer for Sleepless begins with a high-speed car chase down an empty and dark Las Vegas street. A car with two masked men are dangerously tailgating a van, and a sudden swerve causes it to crash. The heavily armed masked men jump out of their vehicle ready to rob kilos of cocaine from the van, with gunfire erupting.
At a police briefing the following day, one of those masked drug thieves is revealed to be a police officer named Vincent Downs (Jamie Foxx), whose partner Sean Cass (T.I.) is the second masked bandit. Later that day, as Vincent drives his son home, the boy is ripped out of the car by a group of masked thugs. Stanley Rubino (Dermot Mulroney), the man from whom Vincent took the cocaine, coolly informs Vincent his son will die if he does not return his stolen property.