The relationship between Rob Mason and his father Frank has been tempestuous for most of his seventeen years. Growing up in Anaheim, CA, Rob found his new family in a street gang which led to many arrests and further alienation from his father.

After being drafted to Vietnam, Frank, a WWII veteran, convinces Rob to avoid the draft and drives him to Mexico to hide out with a friend he served with in Europe. Antonio, who owns a casino, agrees to harbor Rob and they form a deep friendship.

Brett Cummings prides himself as being a relentless hunter for the FBI’s draft evasion unit. After tracking Rob to Mexico, he learns his fugitive has been caught up in a drug cartel and is in perilous danger.

Antonio’s son, Carlos, is a drug dealer who starts a war with a rival drug lord which causes tension between him and his father. Jealous of the relationship Rob and Antonio have developed, Carlos acts on his hatred for Rob and his prostitute girlfriend Rosa through violence. With the FBI and Carlos’s posse determined to get them, Rob must fight for survival in an unforgiving country.