The year is 2007. The U.S is in the sixth year of its war on terrorism, the Great Recession is on the near horizon, and the Mexican government has just declared war on the drug cartels. On Mexico's Pacific coast, the livelihood of simple fishermen is threatened by a hotel developer who has enlisted corrupt police and drug-running thugs to drive them from their beachfront anchorage. American radicals living in Mexico as fugitives since the '70's are drawn to the fishermen's cause, but when growing public sympathy draws media limelight, they find themselves gambling that they've outlasted FBI pursuit. As the confrontation escalates, the Americans are forced to reconcile who they once were with who they have become, and to come to grips with America's metamorphosis during their long exile.