El amor en Francia

In the story that opens the collection, "Obverse", Maureez Samson, a young woman from Rodrigues (Mauritius), must face grief after the disappearance of her father at sea; her violence, when her stepfather tries to rape her, and the reality of the convent in which she decides to take refuge, until her gift for her music allows her to find a reason to live. In "Path of Light," a pregnant teenager and a disabled boy flee a child slave camp created by Peru's Marxist "revolutionaries". "La pichancha" tells the adventures of some kids from the border between Mexico and the United States who cross the sewers to visit the forbidden paradise. In the story that gives the title to this book, a young immigrant lives only for the love of his family, who has stayed on the other side of the sea, in Tata. Will these unforgettable heroes survive in a world of harsh laws and steely modernity?