In an attempt to improve the family's financial situation, medical examiner Roan Hughes makes a deal with his conscience and begins working for the mafia, which sells organs. But very soon his happy life turns to dust. All that remains for him is boundless grief and a thirst for justice, which lead him to Mexico. Detectives Miller and Blunt investigate a strange disappearance in Portland. One body with no name. One man with no past. And a chain of evidence that stretches from a quiet morgue to the southern border, where the law ends and darkness begins.