The whole book is basically written to describe the life of an undocumented immigrant in United States. The life of , who came to US from Nicaragua. The hardships and risks that they had to go through before they arrive to US. Before coming to US she had a dream of the US which a picture was painted in her mind that everything will be much better in US here. But until when she gets here, in Los Angeles, she found out that it is not all she thought it would be. Yamileth and her son, Miguel had to leave their own country and come to US for t ....