Maya spends her summer vacation with her father and his new girlfriend, Dolores. Dolores hates Maya and sees her as an intrusion. Dolores is twenty years old, and was under the impression that Maya was eight years old. Daddy works as a cook at a naval hospital. He cooks Mexican food and travels to Mexico for the ingredients. He asks Maya if she loves her mother, referring to Dolores. She tells her father Dolores is pretentious. Her father invites her to accompany him on a trip to Mexico. Dolores and her father argue, but they leave for Mexico. He travels past the border town into Mexico and stops at a guard gate. He tells the guard Maya is fifteen and offers to let her marry the guard. The guard responds that he may.....
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