Following the unforeseen suicide of his mentor, brilliant but impoverished PhD student Drew Freeman discovers hidden research so explosive it could shatter the globe-spanning empire of a massive agricultural conglomerate. Quietly continuing his professor's investigation into a spate of hideous deformities in fetuses miscarried by Central American women, Drew uncovers a sinister corporate conspiracy to conceal their true cause. Expelled from the university on trumped-up charges, Drew joins forces with a mysterious friend and a strong-willed Hondruan woman to expose the crime. Facing off in a high-stakes media war against a young public relations whiz and his beautiful protege, Drew and his colleagues battle a corporation that will stop at nothing to protect its secret.