A bipolar sex worker steals $500,000 worth of fentanyl after drifting upon an overdosing vagabond in the depths of the Texas Panhandle.
SYNOPSIS:
Enforcer Noé Maldanado kills two drug mules who’ve stolen a shipment in the Texas Panhandle. A girl watches Noé drag her father’s lifeless body through suburban streets chained by the ankle to his truck's trailer hitch. Meanwhile, Sage Lockhart is train-hopping with drifters across the Red River. She gets off in Quanah & splits from Bodie & Clay, following Mara. After saving the life of overdosing drug dealer, Will, Sage retraces the path of the thief who stole $500,000 worth of fentanyl from him. Sage steals the duffle bag & hitchhikes home. Feeling desperate, she rides with her Aunt Nora to an Amarillo truck-yard to sell the drugs but gets kidnapped by the two men from the train. She escapes into a salvage yard, killing Bodie as she flees for refuge.
Noé ships his reclaimed product & tracks down a stolen drug shipment in Quanah. After gaining the trust of a woman living in a tent, Sage plans to leave Texas. Grandma, Nacona Lockhart, plays bingo after being dragged along by Nora & her husband, Ricky, who are tracking Sage. Noé relays news of the theft to his uncle, Deputy Warden Miguel. Sage train-hops to a truck-stop cafe in Childress, where she hides the duffle bag in the walk-in keg cooler. In need of money, she turns a trick. Upon returning to the cafe to retrieve the bag, she finds that Will & Mara have tracked her there. However, Noé, tipped off by sex worker Amber, tracks Sage & confronts Will & Mara, resulting in their murder. Sage retrieves the duffle bag. Ricky sees Noé kidnap Sage at gunpoint.
Noé takes Sage to his home in Memphis. Sage finds Noé’s drug stash, attempts to escape, but Ricky has hunted her down. Ricky & Noé engage in a gunfight. Sage flees to a neighbor’s house where Ricky & the neighbor exchange bullets. Sage kills Ricky, steals the drugs & Noé’s dirt bike. Sage wrecks the bike, & stashes the drugs in a pasture before passing out from her wounds. Noé disposes of the lifeless bodies. Wyatt Black, a rancher, offers Sage protection in exchange for the drugs, but she refuses. Wyatt reports to Miguel. The office door opens. Noé kills Wyatt & vows to murder Miguel if he isn’t exclusively included in his operation.
Sage retrieves the fentanyl from the pasture & calls Nora sharing her intention to take a train to Fort Worth, where she plans to sell the drugs & disappear. Nora leverages the threat of Sage making life-altering money by selling the drugs against Nacona, inciting her to chase Sage. Nacona reaches Downtown Fort Worth, only to mistake an overdosing woman for Sage. Nacona accompanies the woman to a clinic where she is thanked by the woman’s social worker. That morning, Nacona returns Downtown & sees a tent on a side street. Nacona thinks that Sage is hiding, but when Nacona opens the tent, she is confronted by a strange woman.
Later, Nacona visits with her attorney Charlie Powers to finalize her will & tells him she’s failed as a mother due to her inability to free herself from her obsession with coping with past traumas. Charlie recounts his wife’s sexual assault, reflecting on the lack of control men have over their behavior.
Miguel, now in Laredo, sends his daughter, Camila, off to school after his overnight shift to find Noé waiting in the kitchen. Noé says he must fulfill his vow, offering Miguel zero solace for his refusal to support him. Noé leaves the house as Camila arrives home from school. As he walks out of the neighborhood, a cartel hitman ambushes him. Noé, wounded, reaches cover & kills him, he attempts to get information on the origin of the hit on him yet the man refuses to answer. Noé flees on foot.
Nacona shares a story with Nora about her sister, Maddie, being sexually abused by her second husband after he became a drunkard due to his inability to hold down a job. Leading to Nacona’s reflection on her ability of transcending her prior behaviors.
