Someone is kidnapping immigrant labor crews in the western United States. All signs point to them being smuggled across the border into Mexico. When Victor Aguilar, the head of the country's largest agricultural labor brokerage, is also abducted Rick Moreno sets out to find him and to discover why these crimes are taking place. Tracing the vanished braceros leads Rick on an adventure into completely unexpected areas of human endeavor and into territory far from where he would have thought any rational person would ever dare to venture. Before his journey is complete Rick Moreno will be face to face with the question of how much of a good result is required to justify committing acts of evil. And his life will hang in the balance.