Just before they leave, however, Odelia has a mystical encounter with a ghostly image – La Llorano – a woman from ancient legend who lost her children to the river and mourns their death eternally. Their vague plans include visiting their paternal grandmother as well, who lives somewhere not far from the dead man's village, and whom they have not seen for years. They prop him into their father's abandoned and barely running car, dab makeup on him to fool the border guards, elude their mother while she is at work, and take off for Mexico with only a drivers' permit and a change of clothes each. Thus begins the girls' misguided journey to return the body to his family in Mexico, without bothering to notify authorities. Who was this man? A quick search produces a drivers license and a thick wad of money in a plastic bag stuffed into his boot.
Life has taken a turn for the worse for the five Garza sisters: a year ago their free-wheeling father left the family and hasn’t been heard from since Mama, who has never held a job, is suddenly working long hours as a waitress to keep food on the table Odelia, the eldest sister, has been saddled with the responsibility of supervising her 4 squabbling younger siblings, and now, just as they are cooling off in their own private Rio Grande swimming hole on the wrong side of the border fence, a dead body floats into their midst.
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