Movie Story : In Borrego, a young botanist moves to a small desert town to study an invasive plant species. When she goes to help the crew of a downed plane, she is taken hostage by an inexperienced drug mule who makes her guide him across the scorching desert to his drop-off point. Meanwhile, a local sheriff joins the search, and his defiant daughter sets out on her own to find the missing scientist while a local drug receiver closes in on her.