Logline: After witnessing a senseless village massacre by the Mexican Army, a disheartened marijuana smuggler must overcome betrayal, the burgeoning DEA, and Zapatista Guerrillas to settle his final smuggle. Set in 1973. Based on a true story.

A battered WWII era DC-3, piloted by Bob Jamison, mid-sixties and co- pilot son Hank, early thirty’s, barrels toward a deserted Nevada dry lake. Pick-up trucks charge to life and give chase to relieve the dogged aircraft of its haul - 2.5 tons of marijuana. A Customs plane, hot on its tail, suddenly appears in the morning sky and Eric Bovay, the self-assured lead smuggler/lookout, mid-thirties, orders them done. The smuggle turns manic and the outlaws narrowly escape detection by the airborne feds. Eric and Hank meet with Bob. He informs them the DC-3 is toast and prophesies their demise if they don’t quit while their ahead. Eric, at the top of his game, decides to go bigger use a schooner. He travels to Guerrero to set a deal with wealthy landowner Don Luis Vargas, late 60’s. To honor Eric, he invites him to visit the mountain fields. Eric accepts and in the lull, is reunited with Luisa, 25, Vargas’ daughter, and they rekindle a secret past romance. Joaquin, 45, Vargas’ lead vaquero, flies Eric to the mountains. By horseback they reach the fields but to their horror, a Federale chopper hunting guerrillas, mistakes the simple farming village for a Marxist enclave and massacres men, women and children. Traumatized, Eric finds himself committed, unable to bow out.

Back home, he begins the clandestine smuggle unaware that the DEA now have him in their sites. On orders from unbending DEA director Donald Norris, 47, agents bend the law to gather evidence. Fighting paranoia, Eric calls a meeting and encounters meddling Columbians who want in. Eric’s disdain for them boils over and he turns violent. In a moment of catharsis, he confesses to Hank what happened in the mountains and both men admit, after this, it’s time to hang it up. They fortify an old Chevy Impala for Eric to safely drive front money down to Don Luis. But in Mexico, a minor accident turns into a deadly, hair-raising car chase involving the DEA and the Mexican Police. Narrowly escaping, he runs into another problem - military roadblocks headed by American Special Forces looking for Marxist guerrillas. Using the roads to move the marijuana by road is now impossible; They’ll have to use a mule train and travel through the mountains by night. As they prepare, Zapatista guerrillas, tipped off about Eric’s cash delivery, attack the hacienda and during the violent assault Eric saves Luisa’s life. In a moment of détente, Joaquin brokers a deal to let the trapped guerrillas go free in exchange for them not attacking the mule train as they travel to the coast.

Eric, who’s earned the vaqueros’ respect, rendezvous with Hank and a Schooner from Jamaica. Hank, however, tells Eric that Gretchen, 27 (Eric’s girlfriend), is on the boat, destroying Eric’s plan to return to the hacienda with the mule train. As they sail north, Hank drops another bombshell. He confesses that he made a side deal with the Columbians and has picked up some cocaine. The two come to blows over the ‘betrayal’ and each tries to justify their motives. In the end, they both realize that it’s not fun and games anymore and it’s really over. As the schooner sails for San Fransisco Bay, a DEA informant warns the Columbians that the Coast Guard is following Hank’s boat and the DEA is going to arrest them when they dock. To avoid scrutiny, the Columbians send an assassin to eliminate Hank. Eric is shattered when simultaneously, Hank is shot and the DEA converge, in force, to bust them . . . especially since Norris finds the schooner. . . empty.

Days later, Eric, guilt ridden confesses how he pulled off the trick. In flashback, a large amphibious plane lands near the schooner at night to unload it in international waters. The ‘confession’ however, is to Don Luis in Mexico. Eric explains that the amphibious plane crashed later and they lost the pilot as well as the entire load. He’s brought all of his own money to cover the cost of the loss and inform Don Luis that he has retired from the trade. As Eric leaves the hacienda for the last time, Federales attack the hacienda on a lead. Under heavy gunfire, Luisa escapes with Eric to a small plane, piloted by Bob, and they fly away leaving Mexico and an era behind.