The author describes journeys across Central America that include dangerous train trips across the whole of Mexico, running from would-be kidnappers and rapists, and also the death threats issued to the families the children have left behind. The essay is divided into four main segments Border, Court, Home and Community, which basically describe the children's four part journey towards safety and freedom. The book's author, Valeria Luiselli, acted as translator for many of these children, helping them to understand and answer these forty questions that determine whether they are given legal status or not. More than one hundred and twenty thousand of these children were unaccompanied and as a result were detained at the border between America and Mexico. There are forty questions forming part of the legal questionnaire developed for Central American Children flooding into America in what became an immigration crisis in 2014 during Barrack Obama's presidency. The essay demonstrates the truth in this saying only too well and shows that escaping from gangs, violence and daily dangers in Honduras changes nothing when the Hondurans who have moved with you are the same people who terrorized you in your hometown. There is a saying that goes, "Wherever you go, there you are" - meaning that people do not change just because their geographical location has.
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