A ranch foreman abducts the border patrol officer responsible for killing an illegal immigrant worker and forces him to atone for his crime by helping take the body back to Mexico for burial. Modern-day Western, directed by and starring Tommy Lee Jones. With Barry Pepper, Julio Cedillo and Dwight Yoakam.

When brash Texas border officer Mike Norton wrongfully kills and buries the friend and ranch hand of Pete Perkins, the latter is reminded of a promise he made to bury his friend, Melquiades Estrada, in his Mexican home town. He kidnaps Norton and exhumes Estrada's corpse, and the odd caravan sets out on horseback for Mexico.