Nick, an Iraq war veteran, lives a petty desperate life in Tijuana. He meets Ana, a young Mexican woman looking for her missing brother Ricardo, a former US soldier. Seeing the opportunity to make money, he agrees to help her, but soon discovers that Ricardo had been killed by drug dealers from the zona. Confronted with Ana's obstinate determination, Nick has no other choice than to convince her of Ricardo's death so that she gets out of this dangerous place. Even if this means inventing his death...