 While traveling to start a new life in the United States, a young boy gets caught up in the underworld of human traffickers. Carlos Mendez, a ruthless man who deals in the business of human trafficking, hijacks a van loaded with migrants making their way north to the border. Miguel is one of them. Uncomfortable with the predicament he finds himself in, Miguel attempts to escape into the desert. The desert at night is no place to confront or escape the likes of Carlos and his henchmen. Miguel s dreams are shattered when Carlos makes an example of him.