When an engineer from an aircraft recovery and salvage company is sent to a remote Texas airfield to prepare a group of retired airliners to be cut up for scrap, he finds one aircraft in surprisingly good condition. While unraveling the true identiry of this mysterious "blackird", he soon attracts the attention of powerful people intent on keeping a deadly secret. What began as a simple business venture suddenly becomes a clautrophobic game of wits that can only have one winner.