Because of personal reasons, California police agent George Camarena requests and is given permission to take on a drug lord and his men in Mexico. Despite marital problems and the worries of his aged mother, he departs for Mexico knowing full well the enormous difficulties that lay ahead. Working among killers to get clues, he winds up with few answers after gun battles to the death. The only good card he holds may be his connection with a woman in the gang, Alejandra.