 it starts with like her story her migration story from the philippines she was born under the marcus regime which basically socioeconomically destabilized the philippines she came to the us for economic opportunity but clearly she had a really hard time adjusting and then eventually she made some choices that led her to a federal offense that led to her decades of incarceration when she was in prison she met all these wonderful women of color who also were survivors of sexual and gender violence so i just followed her story through her healing