Altagracia Guzman was fourteen when she was kidnapped and sold into slavery in the US. She had lived with her family in Delicias, Mexico, south of Chihuahua. Even as she endured unspeakable trauma, she remembered home, and always recited her home address to herself. One day, she and a group of other stolen girls were moved through the desert north of the border of Mexico and the US. Altagracia decides to run. She hears a gun, but runs and runs until she can flag down a car. In the car is a woman and man, and the woman is able to speak Spanish. The woman, Elizabeth, takes her to get new clothes, feeds her a sandwich from her car, and takes her to a friend that can get Altagracia back over the border. The woman's friend, Peter, who is a dentist and goes back and forth over the border often, is able to get her across easily, as the border agents trust him. Altagracia is back in her home country, and Peter the dentist buys her a tamal and a coke, and sees her off onto the bus. Altagracia reaches her town and gets off the bus. She hails a cab, and worries that it might not stop for her, as she looks so young. She believed it was the American clothes she wore that made her look older. She arrives to her house, runs up to her doorstep, and into her mother's arms, only to feel the pain of a bullet in the back of her head. Altagracia died on the desert ground when one of the men transporting her shot her in the back of the head as she ran. The man who killed her only felt regret that he could not profit off of her.