A handful of low-level gangsters are handed the biggest job of their careers: kidnap the son of a billionaire and keep him alive until a ransom is negotiated. But as they attempt to rise to the occasion, they succumb to their own incompetence, enraging their bloodthirsty boss and starting a violent escalation that leaves a high body count in its wake. Henchmen is a comedy thriller about starting at rock bottom and going down from there.