The launching names explain by launching enormous maquiladoras directly round the United States -- Mexico boundary, that American corporations have been using the North American Free Trade Agreement. The maquiladoras hire mostly Mexican women to work long hours for little money as a way to produce mass volume products.Lauren Adrian (Jennifer Lopez), an impassioned American news reporter for its"Chicago Sentinel" really wants to be delegated towards the Iraq frontlines to pay for the war. As an alternative, her editor George Morgan (Martin Sheen) assigns her to explore a group of slayings involving young maquiladora factory women at a Mexican bordertown.