Events turn out well enough for Victor, but he’s surrounded by violence and death on his journey. Rico tricks Victor into crossing with drug smugglers. He meets up with his friend Rico, who has had problems of his own getting to El Norte. He makes the crossing once with a “lone wolf” named Miguel and is caught and deported. Victor runs into trouble before he even gets to the border. He doesn’t have the $1,500 to pay a “coyote” to shepherd him across, so he’s on his own. He realizes that the only way his family will have the money they need to survive is for him to make the risky border crossing himself. Victor has been making ends meet by growing corn, but governmental subsidies paid to American farmers have cut his profits to near nothing. His father died in a construction accident while working illegally in South Carolina.
Fifteen-year-old Mexican Victor Flores is the man of his family.
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