August 24th 2010 San Fernando, Tamaulipas, Mexico. An horrific discovery of seventy two bus passengers, kidnapped from the main highways and murdered in cold blood, their bodies scattered on a deserted farm. The inhuman act shocked the nation, but this was only the beginning as the following months saw the rise of one of the most powerful and brutal drugs cartels in Mexico. With impunity, they swept through the region, while the authorities failed to act. As the region becomes a killing ground for the most brutal drugs cartel in Mexico, the Los Zetas. San Fernando becomes centre stage for some of the most horrific acts ever to take place during president Calderon’s war on drugs. Felipe ‘Flip’ Hernandez is a handyman who lives with his two young sons in the eastern barrio of San Fernando. Haunted by the disappearance of his wife and wracked with guilt, he is forced to navigate his way through the corruption and violence that blighted his homeland in the hope of discovering the truth about the fate of his wife. As the story of Flip unfolds, several intertwined stories take place such as that of the children who bare witness to the horrors of the bloodshed of Mexico’s drug war, a mother who undertakes a quest for justice when tragedy strikes. The teenagers who seek indoctrination into the gangs and drug cartels, a young El Salvadorian survivor and a psychotic and bloodthirsty child soldier of the Los Zetas. The story moves through the killing fields and cartel occupied barrio’s of Tamaulipas towards a conclusion that is apocalyptic and even more unbelievable than the mass murder that came before it. Based upon true events, the story moves between tragedy, violence but eventually towards hope. The good people of Mexico endure such hardships only 100 miles from the United States and Under the blood red sky.