"Nancy!" "You stay next to me and don't say a thing." "What did you do with the ones I gave you?" "I lost them." "It's late already." "Why don't we go?" "Let's wait some more." "She might not come." "Her mom was sick." "Things are so different there." "She even managed to work and study hairdressing, which was what she wanted." " Look at what a nice letter." " We are very hardworking too." "We'll have to look for other girls to continue working for these people, one has to be respectful, plus I do it with pleasure." "If I could, I'd like to enroll in high school." "Is that right?" "I had to travel to El Dorado, and I couldn't..." "Well, who knows now." "It's a great idea!" "But don't say anything if you go there." "At first, it's better not to say anything." "After some time, when you already have a schedule and everything you ask them and they'll say yes." "Important people, don't let me down." "First, you do your Job and then, you'll see." "You too would like to find a job in Buenos Aires, right?" "I help mom around the house." "And that's why your mom would llke you to leave too, so that you can find a job and help her." "I don't know, this is very far, right?" "I'm going to the bathroom." "I'm late!" "Well, I think she hasn't quite made up her mind anyway." "I want to help her." "But I can't keep going round in circles." "You never said how much they'll pay us." "Eight hundred pesos per month, besides lodging and food." "If you find it too little..." "But it has to be two girls." "Julia!" "Nancy!" "Fuck it, always the same." "Where were you?" "I went to the bathroom." "You weren't in the bathroom!" "You left." "I went out in the street looking for you." " You left me alone." " I left you alone?" "What am I supposed to be doing here, then?" "I want to leave with you." "It's better for you to stay." "You don't want to be with me?" "Who knows, maybe we'll find Tincho in Buenos Aires!" "Who?" "That scumbag?" "Don't even talk about him." "It's history now." "But we can meet lots of other boys there." "Yeah!" "It frightens me, going so far away." "But Pato says that there the pay is better, and that we can save money to send back home." "But if you don't want me to, I won't leave." "Mom?" "You are always out and about." "And forget your brothers." "You're too old to hang around doing nothing." "The fewer people here, the better for all." "Why is she taking so long?" "Come on, kids." "I have to be early today." "They aren't here yet?" "There they are!" "What happened to you?" "!" "I'm sorry, but what with the farewell..." "Never mind." "This is Oscar." "He's the guy from the agency who'll take you to the house." "Here are your tickets, get on the bus now." "We'll talk during the trip, OK?" "Here, have this, otherwise you'll be hungry way before lunch time." "I'll be waiting to hear from you, darling." "One can get lost here." "You won't get lost." "Yes, I'll get lost." "And we won't find each other." "Quit bothering me, you sound like a little girl." "Pato." "What?" "I feel good." "I do too, Nancy." "And now what are we waiting for?" "." "I don't know." "He said he was going to get the car." "Do I look cute, Pato?" "Yes, you look cute." "I'm hungry." "Will they give us something to eat?" "Yes, I guess so." "Will you help me?" "With what?" "To do things right." "To not make mistakes." "All you have to do is clean, that's it." "It's what you've always done." "No." "It's different this time." "Why did I ask you to come?" "Will you keep on talking and talking?" "No." "We'll do just fine." "We'll earn more money." "And then, on Sundays, we'll go out together." "We'll go dancing." "What do you think of that?" "You want to find Tincho." "What are you saying, Nancy?" "Yes, and you'll marry him and leave me all alone." "No." "I won't marry him anymore, even if I find him." "So don't you talk to me about him again!" "Let's go, girls." "Change this shit!" "Leave it!" "It's a good station." "I'm sure the girls like it, right?" " I like it." " See?" "O.K., I'll leave it." "Love, eternal love..." "You'll sing it the whole weekend, right?" "Illuminating love..." "My dear beloved..." "And?" "What do you think about Buenos Aires?" "It's very big." "We are going to the house now, right?" "Yes." "The place where you'll be working." "They are very good people." "Will we have time to do other things?" " Time?" "Afterwork." "I don't really care, but Pato wants to finish high school" " Maybe she can go to night school." " Shut up, girl!" "She talks and talks..." "And what do you want to do?" "I don't like school." "I barely finished fifth grade." "Now, I'm already grown up." "But Pato is not." "You think you're older than her?" "I'm older but smaller than her." "I'm five years older than her." "I used to take care of her, now she takes care of me." "I see." "You look younger, fifteen I'd say." "Or you are fifteen and you lied to me?" "No, I told you, I'm nineteen." "Don't get mad!" "Forgive me." "After this long trip, we were Just having some fun with your friend." "We are here already." "Are you hungry?" " Yes, very hungry." "I'm sure they'll give you something to eat here at the house." "AGÜERO." "Come here." "Come on, girl!" "Pato!" "We're here." "Come on!" "Nancy..." "This way." "Are you tired?" " Yes." "Oscar, are we going to eat something now?" "Ask Susana." "Who's Susana, Pato?" "She is so small." "Put your bags here, girls." "What do you want them for?" "If you're going to work here, we have to check them out." "Give me." "Give me your bag too." "Here you'll have to work a lot." "The sleeping shifts are already established for all of you girls." "One day, one of you sleeps during the morning, the other one during the afternoon, the other one at night." "That's how it's organized." "Oscar, she has an ID." "With the first money you make, you'll pay the debt." "What debt?" "Didn't you tell them, Oscar?" "What we paid the woman who got you for us." "Julia?" "What did you pay her?" "One thousand pesos each." "That is what you owe us." "Pato, we don't have that kind of money." "Eactly, darling, that's why you'll work hard." "Here you'll have to do tricks with many men." "A lot of guys come here." "Now, Oscar will give you the clothes you'll wear and explain all you need to know." "We are leaving!" "You!" "You come here." "Oscar, do something with this fucking hick." "Come on, do something!" "You're already loaded, asshole." "Go!" " Quiet, quiet." " No." "Easy, easy..." "Why are you taking her?" "Nancy!" "Stop it, stop it." "Don't you play dumb!" "Come on..." "You wanted to work, now you'll work!" "Fucking brat..." "Wet, really wet..." "Help me!" "Put this on!" "Take it off!" "Cut it!" "You wanted to study..." "Help!" "It really hurts." "Pato" "Help me!" "Who cares if it hurt?" "It was six or seven years ago." "They told me the best thing was to take them all out because otherwise I could have further problems." "I have never had good teeth." "So I agreed, if there was no choice." "I had no choice." "They wanted to take them one at a time." "But, no sir, I wouldn't do it that way." "At least, three at a time." "It would hurt more in the very moment, but the whole thing would be over sooner." "It took great courage." "The first time it hurt." "It hurt badly." "But I already had it all organized." "I would take a case of whisky from the pizzeria and then, as I would leave the dentist's office," "I would start drinking and drinking." "It was all precisely calculated." "Thirty minutes by bus to get back home." "I got off the bus walking in circles." "And when I got home, I would take the other bottle." "I had it in the closet and would keep drinking." "Meanwhile, I would watch TV lying on the couch." "I no longer felt anything." "Not even pain, nothing at all." "I slept like a baby, sucking on my pacifier." "I no longer can bite." "And I don't have the money for new teeth." "I miss my teeth." "But what can you do about it?" "One misses so many things..." "Are you Lulú?" "No." "My name is Nancy." "Well, it doesn't matter." "My name is Inés but here they call me "Vanesa"." "Come here, I'll put some makeup on your face..." "And Pato?" "The other new one?" "I don't know what they call her." " Where is she?" " I don't know." "In another room." " Let me put some makeup." " I don't want to." "There is this guy coming soon, he'll want to see us all." "I don't want to be with men." "I want to see Pato." "I have to tell her something they told me to..." " You'll see her." " When?" "You girl, wake up." "What time is it?" "What do I know?" "I'm hungry." "These fuckers don't give us shit." "What're you doing lying there?" "Come on, let's go!" "Move!" "Put your boots on." "They're too big for me." "Never mind." "Put them on anyway." "Come on, girl." "Where's Pato?" "Lulú," "go with this man to room 2." "Over there, the second door." "Here's the 50 pesos." "Yes, yes, I know." "Open!" "Come on!" "Open!" "I want to have fun!" "Bye!" "Bye!" "A coffee, cream, and milk." "They said I had to take them all out." "What can you do about it?" "Not that I eat great food anyway!" "If it's the best, it's the best." "There's no other choice." "Have a nice day." "Eat something, Pato." "Otherwise, you'll weaken." "It hurts." " I can't bite." " Eat using the other side." "Suck it slowly." "It's weird, they haven't come to bother us yet." "Because they told me to tell you." "What?" "That you have to work." "If you don't, they'll take you far away and we'll never see each other again." "Why don't you think it over?" "Don't misbehave." "Instead of doing what you're told, think of a way to get us out of here." "Lower your voice or they'll hear you." "And they'll take you away." "What do you care?" "Who are you anyway?" "My name is Francisca Gómez." "I'm from Encarnación, Paraguay." "I also came here to work in something else." "Have you been here long?" "I guess two months, give or take..." "You have to speak really low because if not they'll hear you." "Outside, never." "No matter how much you scream, nobody hears you." "At first I screamed a lot, but then I got tired, they beat me up so many times." "And so they told me that they were going to let me go once I finish paying my debt." "But with the fines they keep adding, I always owe money to them." "Do you know where we are?" "In Buenos Aires." "Agüero is the name of the street." "("Agüero": omen)" "Agüero...?" "What a name." "I remember because when I saw it I thought of" ""bird of bad omen"." "Denise, they want you." "Come here..." "We have to leave this place." "We have to find a way out." "They'll take you away and we won't see each other anymore, because they are going to kill you, that's what they told me." "And they are going to kill me too, if you don't obey them." "No, they won't do a thing to you." "Because you are dumb." "You don't think." "You don't understand anything." "There's something way wrong with your head." "You are an idiot." "Idiot!" "And I'm stuck here with you." "I am even more of an idiot." "I bought their little story." "What story?" "Lulú, it's time for your bath." "Come on!" "Help, help us, please!" "We're here!" "Please help us!" "Help, help us!" "She wouldn't listen to me." "We better hurry." "Help, help us!" "Let me go!" "No!" "Oscar, grab her!" "Let me go!" "No!" "Use the other bathroom." "Go get yourself properly dressed." "Are you taking her away?" "Cut it off!" "Fuck, come here!" "Because of her, now you'll have to do double shifts." "And worry about yourself." "Some clients have complained that you stay there stone-faced, doing nothing." "Let's see, you blonde, give her a hand, because she doesn't even know how to put makeup on." "What are you laughing at?" "Bitch." "Who?" "That witch." "You're laughing at me." "No." "I'm not laughing at you." "Close your eyes." "I don't stay stone-faced." "I think of other things." "What you have to do is say nice things to those guys..." ""Oh Daddy, you're so handsome"." "You have to think of a boy you like." "Who do you like?" "I like Seba of the Bori Bori." "And what's that?" "A music band I used to listen to." "Thank you and good night." "Have a nice rest." "It's fifty pesos, already you know." "The small one." "Lulú." "Take our friend to room 3." "I'd never seen you before." "Have you been here long?" "I come by now and then." "You're so handsome." "Me, handsome?" "Almost all of my teeth are gone." "Come on, sit on my lap." "You're cute all the same." "And you're my queen." "Good morning." "A latte coffee." "A latte coffee!" "Lulú!" "Come here." "Don't be afraid." "Here, a little gift." "It's for you only, a prize for your good behavior." "Very good." "You are doing just fine." "Pato!" "Pato, are you there?" "Nancy..." "Nancy, I'm hungry." "Why do you do this?" "To keep us apart?" "Nancy, don't you see what they're doing to me?" "If you work, they'll feed you." "That way you'll get better." "And we'll be able to be together." "After all, this is not all that bad." "What?" "Do you enjoy being a whore?" "You seem to like to be tied and alone." "You better leave, whatever did you come here for?" "It's not that difficult." "And who knows, you may meet a good man." "I don't want to hear you anymore." "Please go." "I met a man who likes me, he'll be back with me." "He's a good man." "I like what he says, he looks like an uncle of mine who used to visit us when I was a little girl." "Why?" "Because he's gentle, he's not like the others." "My uncle was like that." "You never told me." "Put your boots on, and don't you take them off again." "Table 4." "Charge the guy an etra half an hour." "50 pesos." "I paid the lady." "Never mind the lady." "It's 50 pesos." "You stayed longer, you pay more." " Will you charge me?" " Yes." " 10 more." " I don't have it." " The watch." " I don't have it." "You'll pay me next time." "Lulú!" "Take it to Vanessa." "Can I get Pato something to eat?" "Not now, later." "But she needs to get well." "Otherwise, she will be useless to you." "You are the one we'll take far away if you don't behave." "Go now." "They took her away, poor thing." "Not your friend, girl." "They won't take her yet, they want to make herwork first." "The Paraguayan girl got caught grabbing Oscar's cell phone." "Lulú.." "We'd wake up in the mornings, have some croissants, drink mate." "And then work at the kiosk I have in the garage." "Wouldn't you like it?" "Would you take me?" "And what about going to my hometown?" "Wherever, it doesn't matter." "I'll take you wherever you want." "I want to be with you all the time." "It would be nice." "You could come with us." "I have ten brothers back there." "I am the third or the fourth, I can't remember because one of us died a long time ago." "Two of them are very little." "They are one and four years old." "Those two are the ones I miss." "Pato also has a lot of brothers and sisters, but they live near the station." "Who's Pato?" "Her name is Patricia." "And she is like a sister to me because I don't have a sister." "They are all boys." "When she was little, I used to take care of her, we would play together." "Then she grew up and taught me things but if she doesn't work they'll take her far away." " Who?" " Pato, my friend." "They have her locked in the bathroom." "They don't let her out." "They tied her hands and beat her up badly, because she paid no attention to me." "I didn't want to be with guys either." "But fortunately I met you, and you want to take me away from here." "Will you get us out of here?" "Not me." "It has to be the police." "Don't worry." "I'll call them." "And then we'll be together, right?" "Well, man?" "We don't have all night here." "Come on, fatso." "What the fuck are you saying?" "I say that you must decide already." "I'm paying and I'll do whatever I want." "Everybody pays here, that makes no difference." "and don't insult me in my house." "I'll have your ass kicked." "Did you hear me?" "I'll have your ass kicked." "He's made up his mind." "Great." "Yes, I made up my mind." "Lulú, take him to room 1." "Are you listening to me?" "Hi, mommy!" "Finally, I was waiting for you, guys." "Vanesa," "take this to the guys." "Lulú." "What are you still doing there?" "Go." "They're here." " Where's Pato?" " I don't know." "They've come to save us!" "What's wrong with you?" "The police." "He was going to call them." "Are you crazy, girl?" "They are not coming." "Feel lucky if the guy didn't say anything." "Come here." "No, I don't want to." "I want to see my friend." "Come here then, shit." "Here's your friend." "Are you happy now?" "Vanesa, move and bring a pair of shoes for "Cousin It"." "Come on." "Go." "Put it on." "Say goodbye to your friend, now." "Say bye to her." "Because you made us lose so much money we have to take her somewhere else." "It's a shame." "She's already dressed and ready." "No, don't take her away!" "All right." "All right what?" "I'm going to work, but don't take her, let her stay with me." "Stop all this bullshit now!" "Get up!" "Get your little pal now." "You better be good now." "It's the best for you." "They are good girls but sometimes they get into trouble." "Net time you won't tell the tale." "Get it?" "!" "Do as they say, Pato." "Soon enough we'll be rescued." " Feed her a little!" " She needs to eat something." "Put some makeup on her, she's a total mess." "What did you just say, Nancy?" "Soon they'll come to get us out of here." "Save one of them for my old woman." "You need the ashes." "You have to look around for ashes." "Get her changed fast." "You, come with me." "Get this hick ready." "Here, put this on." "This is room 3." "Be kind and do as you are told." "Yes." "Raúl... yes." "Well, you are my friend..." "When?" "They are awesome." "Really young and way home." "All kinds." "We'll be waiting for you." " Open up." " What happened?" "Open up, I want to leave." "Help me...!" "Help me...!" "Help!" "Help!" "Help me!" "Wait here." "You stay here." "Where did they take her?" "I want to see Pato." "Why are you sitting there?" "Get up, change that face, go in with this man." "What are you doing?" "Don't you see her, Susana?" "Go to the back." "You leave her to me." "Leave her here." "You want her?" "." "There you have her." "Ball-buster, what's wrong with you?" "I want to see Pato." "I want to see Pato." "Here." "Go into that room and start cleaning up." "I'm really tired." "You are too good." "You can't leave her alone." "Didn't you see what she did?" "But she doesn't even know how to use the phone." "We should have separated her." "Taken this one to the other place." "You should have listened to me." "Do the bed, too!" "You do this just to piss me off." "Come on, cut it off." "You're always complaining." "I'm complaining?" "You are always complaining" "But I'm not complaining." " Don't bother me, I'm sick and tired." "I have to do it all." "Show my face, charge them, all." "Come on, cut it off." "You have to be careful with her, very careful." " Don't bother me, I'm sick and tired." "I'm like a slave." "Don't you play martyr with me." "This business belongs to you and to the other guy." "I'm the only slave after all." "And the other guy won't even help us." "I wish he'd come and take her once and for all." "I'm sick and tired!" "It must be him." "Tell him everything now." "What are you doing here?" "I feel bad." ""I feel bad"." ""I feel bad"." "Susana, take care of "Cousin It"!" "What the fuck did you give her?" "You asshole, what if she dies?" "What will you do?" "Susana!" "Hello!" "Here!" "Kids!" "Hello!" "Kids, call mom!" "Call mom!" "Hello!" "Hello!" "Mister, please, help me!" "They have us trapped in here!" "They are going to kill my friend!" "That way!" "Agüero is the name of the street." "There are the girls." "Girls!" "Girls!" "Everything fine, kiddo?" "They're taking them to jail, Pato!" "They're taking them to jail!" "Sometimes I think they are around." "Although they told me they found the others." "I don't go out much." "I don't even remember what going dancing was like." "I just go to the movies every now and then." "Mom told me you are fine." "That your belly is kind of big now." "I know you are going to be a good mom." "I've been saving all year, and when school is out, I'll travel to visit you." "We'll be able to be together for a few days." "TO BE READ OUT TO NANCY" "I feel like seeing you." "And seeing mom and the kids, too."