An emotionally distant patriarch must saddle up and use everything
within his means to rescue his kidnapped daughter as a result of a
multi-generational feud between a Mexican cattle baron family and the
lawmen in an Arizona border town.

SYNOPSIS:

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JOHN SAGE is a U.S. Marshal and widower running out of time to save any

semblance of a family. Burdened by a family secret he carries and guilt

ridden over the loss of a wife, he's buried himself in his work. Then

his son dies of an apparent drug overdose and he learns CARLOS VEGA, a

young rising Mexican Drug Cartel boss is behind it. It reignites an old

Sage-Vega border feud. After a bid to bring CARLOS VEGA to justice

fails, John quits the U.S. Marshal's Service and returns to the Sage

family homestead and cattle ranch on the U.S. - Mexico border.

Then KATIE, his rebellious teenage daughter, is "kidnapped" by Carlos.

John saddles up one last time to ride into the Sierra Madres to rescue

his daughter and settle an old score with the Vegas. He quickly finds

himself with an uninvited posse of current and former law officers and

Katie's boyfriend. They all want to get Carlos, but for different

reasons. When Katie is rescued, they discover she does not want to go

home and she escapes back to Carlos. Soon Katie realizes she has made a

deadly mistake as she learns that Carlos is using her as bait to lure

John into the Sierra Madres where he intends to kill her and her father.

Carlos taunts John telling him Katie is pregnant with his son, and,

later he tells John that Katie has died. John's rescue mission turns

into a recovery mission. However, it was Katie's girlfriend who died,

and Katie escapes again and contacts her father. Carlos recaptures her,

cutting her plea for help short.

The hunt takes them deep into Devil's Valley to a heavily fortified Vega

Plantation and Compound. John realizes that setting Katie free from

Carlos may mean he and Katie will die, but it is better then Katie

living with Carlos. John is "captured" and brought face-to-face with

Carlos. Carlos reveals the answer to the family secret that John has

chased his entire life for his grandfather - a promise of family

justice. With the help of posse members, the tables quickly turn on

Carlos and in the final moments Carlos faces his biggest fear - water,

and pleads to be killed. In a surprise twist, Carlos comes face to face

with his half-sister and learns that in avenging the loss of his

grandparents and mother, he's unknowingly killed his mother - and dying

would be the easy way out, his "family justice" will be to die a slow

death in hell on earth.