Luz Dunn

Luz Dunn was born to a Mexican mother who drowned herself and a manipulative American father. At her birth, she is adopted by the California state and made the poster child of the Bureau of Conservation’s project of extending the aqueducts and stopping the drought. She is known as Baby Dunn and is used as political propaganda by the government and also by its opponents. In a situation in which science has failed, Baby Dunn becomes a symbol of hope for a hopeless cause. As a teenager, she models under her mother’s maiden name as Luz Cortez and is emancipated at 14 years old so that her father can avoid child labor laws. She is abandoned by all those around her—including her agency, which flees to New York because of the drought.

Orphaned, alone, and used her whole life, 25-year-old Luz is about to evacuate...