The dangerous prisoner "Vazquez" is being transported back to Argentina from Mexico after being captured during a failed bank robbery.
The plane is eventually fixed but an oil leak means that it can't take off again without falling apart.
The elderly Ortos couple tell him they would like to stay as they are already very old and don't have many years left anyways and Vazquez chooses Jorge to also stay because his duplicitous nature (including attempting to bribe Vazquez with money and a lawyer to get out of the execution should they return) telling him that Jorge isn't worth saving.
The survivors enter the plane and get ready to go as the natives' drums resound again and bid farewell to Vazquez and the Ortos.
In the final scene, Vazquez awaits his fate as the natives close in on him while in the sky, the plane flies away to safety.