Alex Raines, a once-respected airline pilot, has been secretly flying drug shipments for Hector “El Toro” Delgado, a powerful cartel boss. He justifies it as a means to pay debts and protect his estranged family. But when Alex lands from a routine job, Delgado’s enforcers confront him: the latest cargo is short by twenty kilos and $2 million in cash. Alex insists he delivered everything, but the cartel believes otherwise. Delgado gives him a brutal ultimatum find who really stole it, or he’s a dead man walking. Alex begins investigating quietly, balancing his airline job with cartel demands. He suspects rival pilots, crooked customs officials, even Delgado’s own lieutenants. His digging leads him into violent corners of the drug world: warehouses, stash houses, corrupt officials, and assassins on his tail. Along the way, he forms a tense alliance with Marisol, Delgado’s sharp and wary accountant, who believes someone is bleeding the cartel dry from within.
Alex uncovers evidence pointing to Mateo, a trusted lieutenant who’s been running double books. But when he confronts Delgado, Mateo flips the script, producing forged ledgers showing Alex as the thief. Delgado spares Alex barely but puts him under surveillance. Now hunted by both cartel enforcers and law enforcement, Alex races to uncover the deeper conspiracy. He discovers that Marisol has been secretly documenting cartel finances, planning to escape with a fortune. Worse her plan requires framing Alex as the fall guy. She manipulates Mateo, orchestrates the missing drugs, and ensures Delgado’s fury falls squarely on the pilot.
Alex gathers proof, but Delgado no longer trusts him. Betrayed at every turn, Alex’s world collapses. With enemies closing in, he arranges one final meeting to clear his name. In a tense standoff at a remote airstrip, Alex confronts Delgado with evidence of Marisol’s betrayal. Marisol tries to turn the tables, claiming Alex fabricated it all. Chaos erupts gunfire, burning planes, and desperate escape attempts. Delgado, realizing too late who the real traitor is, kills Marisol but not before Alex takes a fatal shot during the firefight. As Alex bleeds out, he reflects on how he let greed drag him into a world where trust is poison and loyalty is death. The cartel cleans up the scene, and Alex dies nameless, remembered only as another pawn swallowed by the sky.