Balthazar Paredes, former supertanker captain, is on his way up at Oil & Co. His idealistic daughter, Emma, is an MEP investigating an oil spill implicating the multinational giant. Divided by politics, yet united by love, father and daughter spend a doomed seaside weekend together. Emma furiously flies herself home in a light aircraft...and dies when it crashes. Shattered, Balthazar takes up Emma's investigation where she left off and discovers the worst. Not only is Oil & Co deeply involved in dumping nuclear waste at sea, but her death was no accident.