Zero Zero Zero: Series Review

"Powder.  That's all you see when you look at cocaine.  But look a little closer, and you'll see an endless network: buyers, sellers, brokers and users, invisibly tangled in our daily lives.  Whether we like it or not."

Don Minu (Adriano Chiaramida), a Mafia kingpin living off the grid in Calabria, Italy, orders five metric tons of cocaine for $31 million US dollars, which is a very favorable price.  He needs the profit from retailing that cocaine to maintain control of his criminal organization.

In Tampico, Mexico, drug kingpins Jacinto and Enrique Leyra (Flavio Medina and Víctor Huggo Martin, respectively) receive an order for five metric tons of cocaine, which they pack in a shipping container, disguised as cans of chili peppers.

Zero Zero Zero is the story of that transaction.