James Rhodes (Jeff Daniels) arrives in Mexico looking to assist the locals with a labor dispute involving a factory owned by an American corporation. Once in the small town, which sits just across the border, James finds out that a handful of citizens have wound up dead just outside city limits, on U.S. soil. Realizing that the deaths may actually be murders linked to the labor dispute, James contacts a friend (James Spader) in the U.S. government to help him look into the case.