A Latin American woman crosses the southern border into the United States and is placed in a detention center to determine if she will earn asylum-seeker status or be deported. As she is in the center, she awaits the arrival of her five-year-old son Gabriel; the two were separated a few days before the woman's arrival by her guide, who told her that it was necessary to separate the adults and children because their group was too large to cross together. Now, the woman checks the faces of the new arrivals each day, always frantically scanning for her son. The woman talks to a lawyer at the center about her case, in which she must prove that she qualifies for asylum. She tells the lawyer that she was pulled off a bus and gang raped by a group of boys in her home country. She fears for her safety and that of her child. The woman had been married, but her husband died fours years ago. Now, she must fend for herself and her son. The lawyer tells her, "Boys will be boys." The woman continues searching for her son, asking everyone she encounters if they have seen him. She begins screaming in emotional distress, and the guards respond by putting her in a tiny isolation room, which only increases the woman's distress. One day, after the woman has been in the center a while, she sees her son. She goes to hug him, tears streaming down her face, until she hears another mother screaming. It is not her son— only a little boy who looks like him. The guards put her in isolation once again, and she screams, letting herself fall apart.