Eric Vasquez is a gangster with the whole world against him in American Sicario. An American-born, Vasquez attempts to become the king pin of the Mexican crime underworld. It is a story of money and greed and displays how even your close friends can become enemies in a world as dark and destructive as the Mexican underworld. Vasquez that he has more than just his friends to lose during his rise to the top as he slowly loses his wife Gloria as well.