Laredo reporter Michael O'Hare has, for years, examined people disappearing from Texas over the Mexican border. Many start at Ray Sullivan's bar, where some earn cash to get plastic surgery in an illegal Mexican clinic. When green lawyer and police academy dropout Abby Morgan comes looking for her missing wayward sister Halie, they meet and team up. Even after deputy Tim Corbin pulls the pair out of Mexian police jail for trespassing, only to find the clinic address bogus, they persist, Abby insisting to go in as patient.