Una novela realista que nos cuenta la historia de Lakshmi, una muchacha pobre de Nepal, condenada a los doce años a llevar una vida de esclavitud sexual, sin esperanza de escaparse.

Thirteen-year-old Lakshmi leaves her poor mountain home in Nepal thinking that she is to work in the city as a maid only to find that she has been sold into the sex slave trade in India and that there is no hope of escape.