Muebleria Santiago manufactures furniture at factories in Tijuana and Nogales, Sonora, Mexico, mostly for export into the United States. Their trucks deliver loads of finished furniture to distribution centers throughout California and Arizona. Billy and Joaquin are truck drivers who work at the Tijuana facility and make deliveries throughout Southern California. Though the company is a legitimate Mexican corporation, there have been accusations of influence and ownership, through shell companies, by El Sindicato del Norte, the notorious crime syndicate that operates throughout northwestern Mexico.