By Anna Marie de la Fuente

Colombian rock star Juanes, winner of 26 Latin Grammys and three Grammy Awards to date, makes his big screen debut in the Prime Video drama “Pimpinero: Blood and Oil,” from Andrés Baiz (“Narcos,” “Griselda”), a trailer for which is being presented exclusively to Variety ahead of its world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival (TIFF).

Juanes stars opposite Alberto Guerra (“Griselda,” “Narcos: Mexico”), Alejandro Speitzer (“The Head of Joaquin Murrieta”) and Laura Osma (“Goles en contra”) in this dramatic, fact-based thriller set on the border of Colombia and Venezuela.

The trailer, set to a pounding soundtrack, features rapid cuts of increasing intensity. The story, co-written by Baiz and Maria Camila Arias (“Birds of Passage”), is set in the unforgiving desert between the two countries, where gasoline smugglers known as “pimpineros” risk their lives transporting illicit fuel across the border. Among them is Juan, the youngest of three brothers deeply involved in the dangerous trade. When he’s forced to work for a menacing rival, the dark and deadly nature of the business is exposed, leading to devastating consequences. Driven by a need to uncover the grim secrets hidden in this lawless region, Juan’s girlfriend Diana embarks on a determined quest to discover the truth.