Six months later, she received a letter signed by Felix, but the return address was fake.

Eliana only remembered words on the letter: "We have left." Everything else was irrelevant.

No wonder her mother and brother had never appeared on visiting days, and no wonder she had written numerous letters but received no replies. It turned out she had been abandoned.

"Wasn't we agreed to wait for me to get out? Why? Why are you doing this? Why are you all doing this!" She tore the letter to shreds in a fit of rage. Family had been her only source of hope, and in that moment, the last glimmer of...