Jim Davis is an ex-Army Ranger who finds himself slipping back into his old life of petty crime after a job offer from the LAPD evaporates. His best friend is pressured by his girlfriend Sylvia to find a job, but Jim is more interested in hanging out and making cash from small heists, while trying to get a law enforcement job so he can marry his Mexican girlfriend.

Ángel, a young man with a good education who was raised in a slum in the city of Tijuana, lives with his mother and stepfather, because of the mistreatment he gives, he decides to face him and flee from his own home and seek the American dream.