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Teresa Sanchez is fourteen years old coming of age in the coastal village of Acapulco, Mexico. In her first days of high-school Teresa and her friends; Rocio, Nuvia, and Beatriz, are bustling with gossip about experiencing puberty. At home, with her responsibilities as the oldest sister changing, she works hard with her parents to make ends meet. Her father teaches her his craft as a fisherman. One day traveling into town to sell their catch, a wealthy man eyes Teresa and suspiciously purchases their entire supply of fish, inviting them to the town’s party that everyone is preparing for.

At the party, Teresa is seduced into an unexpected world.  The Medrano family, the wealthy local patrons, use their “daughter’s” fifteenth birthday as an excuse to invite the entire town and handpick girls to sell into slavery in the U.S. Lying to Teresa and her friends, the Medranos tell them that their daughter will be celebrating in Disneyland. Teresa’s unsuspecting parents are told that they are only going for the weekend, all expenses paid. To Teresa’s disappointment her parents refuse. Despite this, Rocio convinces Teresa to run away and take advantage of this once in a lifetime opportunity. 

After a tense journey into the U.S., Teresa and her friends are confronted with a shocking reality. Once Teresa and her friends are trafficked into the U.S., they are shuttled to Mr. Aaron’s La Jolla, California mansion where various Caucasian businessmen auction boys and girls. After Mr. Aaron purchases Teresa and her friends; still oblivious to their situation, the girls are shown their new house and led to the master bedroom where they are ordered to strip naked. The girls protest, explaining that Mrs. Medrano told them they were there to work in order to pay for the trip back home. Mr. Aaron brutally tortures the girls forcing them to accept their new life; sexual slavery.

Eight months later Teresa suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder; her mental state deteriorating. Teresa is unaware that Mr. Aaron’s activities are under surveillance by the local INS and Police.  They are closing in on Mr. Aaron and his diverse network of clients.

As the business continues to boom, Mr. Aaron announces that they will celebrate their success at Black’s Beach, a private beach in La Jolla. At the beach, Teresa, Beatriz, and Nuvia reminisce about their life in Acapulco and mourn their friend, Rocio who was murdered by Mr. Aaron. Realizing they will be tortured to death during their enslavement, or killed escaping to freedom, they steal Mr. Aaron’s wallet and plan their escape. 

Mr. Aaron discovers the girls’ theft and punishes them by showing them the true horrors of sexual enslavement;  forcing them to work at an outdoor brothel nestled in the strawberry fields of North County, San Diego. The conditions are horrendous, Teresa and her friends service thirty to forty men per day without food nor rest, plastic trash bags are laid out on the dirt, a stark contrast to their beds in the La Jolla mansion.  Despite their situation the girls continue planning their escape.

As they run for their freedom, a joint INS, FBI, and POLICE RAID descends on the outdoor brothel; helicopters, police cars, buses, and ambulances surround what looks like a scene from Hell; an orgy coming to an abrupt end.

THE GIRLS ARE RESCUED:

From Teresa and her friends’ perspectives their detainment at the hands of the law is as horrible as their enslavement. They are imprisoned for a crime they are innocent of; prostitution.  Teresa is the only child who confesses that she is a minor. As a result, she is deported back to her hometown in Acapulco, Mexico. Her father, mother, brother, and sister embrace her, crying joyfully with her return.  Teresa accepts her family’s embrace, but cries knowing that she will forever remain silent about the horrors she endured, and never expose

the fates of her friends, Nuvia, Beatriz, and Rocio.

“So here the Archangel paused betwixt the world destroyed and world restored.”                 -John Milton, Paradise Lost.

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