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Carmen Vasquez, an 18-year-old girl from Mexico, is terrified as she is held captive with other women. They are told that they will be taken to the city to work and are given new clothes and cosmetics. The women are reminded that they must repay the organization for the expenses incurred in bringing them across the border. One of the women is killed and Carmen feels sick and rushes to the bathroom. Looking at her reflection, she remembers her journey to this place. Survive the day by EA co opening paragraphs he asked pointing the revolver toward the six remaining women do others have questions the nameless young woman who asked the last question lay dead next to the wall blood oozing from the wound to her forehead 18 year old Carmen Vasquez recently from Guerrero Mexico desperately fought the urge to vomit terrified to move a muscle the woman beside her sobbed softly nobody spoke Bueno you should remember that your new guardian will be as impatient as me in an hour we'll leave for the city where you'll work the box I brought contains a change of clothes for you and the suitcase has cosmetics leave the rags you wear behind and be ready to depart when I return my organization spent a lot of money to feed and clothe you we also risk much to deliver you across the border away from the famine and poverty you faced in Mexico you must repay these expenses and until you do you'll perform the services we require this agreement isn't negotiable and severe consequences follow failure the killer departed and a woman covered their slain companion with the sheet from a bed several others clutched each other crying and Carmen raced to the only bathroom to retch into a filthy toilet she cleansed her mouth with water from the sink staring into a cracked mirror the flawed reflection of her pale face ignited a mental one of her journey here