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When forensic accountant Maya Reyes discovers her cartel client is using a thousand-year-old Peruvian accounting system to track murders instead of money, she has seventy-two hours to decode the ancient khipu pattern before becoming the next hole in their ledger.





A converted loft in downtown LA with floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking the city grid, filled with filing cabinets and a standing desk facing the wall. The space is meticulously organized, everything labeled and categorized, a fortress of order against the chaos outside.

Scattered across LA's industrial zones—alleyways, parking structures, abandoned warehouses—each site contains a precisely drilled hole in concrete, surrounded by Victor's ritual markings. The holes are arranged in the exact spatial pattern of the ancient Peruvian Band of Holes, transforming the city into a living memorial.
Maya takes the high-paying audit job to save her mother, discovers the GPS coordinates pattern, and crosses the threshold by bringing the evidence to Dr. Mendoza—triggering Victor's awareness that someone knows the ledger's true nature.
Maya accepts a lucrative audit contract from a mysterious import business to pay for her mother Carmen's cancer treatment, discovers anomalous GPS coordinates in the ledger that match the ancient Peruvian Band of Holes, and crosses the threshold by seeking help from her former archaeology professor Dr. Elias Mendoza—who confirms each coordinate marks a murder site.
Maya accepts a high-paying audit contract from a mysterious shell corporation to cover her mother's $47,000 cancer treatment, unaware she's crossing a threshold into danger.

Maya brings the coordinate evidence to Dr. Elias Mendoza at UCLA, who confirms his academic research on ancient Peruvian memorial accounting has been weaponized by criminals to track murders.

Maya and Dr. Mendoza visit an abandoned warehouse at one of the GPS coordinates, discovering a ritually-marked hole drilled in concrete—confirming each coordinate marks a murder site, while unknowingly triggering Victor's surveillance system.

Maya and Elias decode the khipu system while Victor hunts them, culminating in a confrontation where Victor reveals his twisted belief that the ledger honors the dead. Maya must face her deepest fear: choosing between provable truth and her mother's survival.
Maya chooses integrity over safety, exposing the ledger despite knowing it means Carmen's treatment ends. Victor, recognizing Maya as a fellow truth-keeper, makes an unexpected choice that determines both their fates.