After winning a complex drug case, Chicago criminal defense attorney David Bricker is invited to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, where he meets Alberto Calderon, a powerful and dangerous drug cartel leader. Impressed with David's courtroom ability, the drug lord charms the young lawyer into laundering money for the cartel. David is later asked to handle emergency cartel business in Chicago and can't say no. But when $6,000,000.00 in cocaine disappears, David is sent for by Calderon to explain. Faced with a last minute trip to Mexico, David is forced to take along his new girlfriend, Samantha, who knows nothing of his shady business dealings. Soon after they arrive in Mexico, David realizes some thing is horribly wrong and a deadly crime spree ensues that has the new couple hunted by the Mexican federal police and the ruthless drug cartel leader.