Dos gemelos que vinieron al mundo por un experimento de carácter científico se encuentran al cabo de los años, tras haber pasado la mayor parte de sus vidas separados. Una vez juntos tratan de encontrar a su madre que según parece reside cerca de la frontera de México. El viaje hasta allí será aprovechado por uno de ellos para entregar una valiosa mercancía.
After being released from prison, small-time con artist Cade tracks down his old girlfriend. When she rebuffs him, he fakes his past in order to get hired as the principal of the school where she teaches, in the hopes of winning her back. Cade soon begins to take a sincere interest in the welfare of his students, and enlists the help of his friend Matthew to break a drug-dealing network that has infested the school.