The poignant story of two women -- one Mexican, one LA Chicana -- whose lives become one, in the most unlikely way.
Thirty-one year old Adelina, a social worker at a women's shelter, suddenly finds herself on a bus ride through Mexico about to confront her past and see her dying mother. A day after her twelfth birthday, Juana must say goodbye to her father when he leaves for the United States, hoping to give his family a better life. After two years of no news of her father, Juana makes her way to the border to find him. When Juana and Adelina meet in Tijuana jail, nothing is ever quite what it seems.
The two women join forces in a Tijuana jail after Juana is accused of taking a man's wallet. On Adelina's death-bed she gives Juana her identity and consequently passage to a new life in the US, to dreams fulfilled and dreams deferred. In this sense, the book could in part be described as (the film) Thelma and Louise meets Elizabeth's Nunez's novel 'Bruised Hibiscus'. But, these comparisons in no way do justice to the unique and authentic content and style of this fiction debut.
