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Jeanette

This character struggles with drug addiction after being molested by her father.

Carmen

This character leaves her family in Cuba for the United States in her early twenties and never speaks to her mother again.

Maria

This character is the only woman working in the cigar factory where she meets her future husband.

Antonio

This character is killed when Spanish soldiers discover him reading to others in a sugarcane field.

Ana

This character lives in Miami before being sent to Mexico with her mother.

Mario

This character struggles with drug addiction and works at a dispensary where he steals OxyContin pills to sell.

Gloria

This character finds solace in books and videos about birds while being held in a family detention center in Texas.

Johnson

This character brings a young girl to a foam party and then has sex with her on a beach in Miami where they...

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