Maria is a Hispanic American woman. She is a professor at a university in Monterrey, Mexico. There is trouble in her marriage. She falls in love with Stanley, a Hispanic-American doctor, who is a Neurologist at a hospital in Monterrey. After much pain, she leaves her husband and moves in with Stanley. Crime has broken out in Monterrey. Stanley and Maria decide to move to Laredo, Texas. Stanley and Maria are kidnapped by one of the gangs. They are beaten, raped, and injected with heroin. Maria becomes addicted. She explores prostitution to pay for her habit. She commutes from Laredo to Monterrey to see her two children Maria lives the life of an addict, but she is also addicted with sex.
