Las 3 hermanas
NUNCA MAS SOLAS
The story of Rosa, Lucia and Belen
Rosa (daughter in law), Lucia and Belen are three young sisters. They are paraguayan originated from Encarnacion. After the separation from his wife, their father Luis left with them Paraguay arriving in Argentina in 2007. In Argentina things changed. They live in extreme poverty and Lucia was introduced from a friend of her, Angelyn, to a man called Mauricio telling her he could help her with work. Mauricio actually was the owner of a brothel and he started to abuse her, give her drugs introducing her to the world of prostitution. She was imprisoned in that place forced to have sexual relations with more than 10 men for day till her sister Rosa and her cousin Patricia saved her from that place. Unfortunately The same story has happened to Belen later: she felt into the same network and got pregnant with the only option to have an high-risk abortion at the fifth month because of the precarious state of health with which she had left the brothel where she was caught.
I saw Lucia the first time on the day after her redemption in the shelter where she was hiding from her pimps. She was a shadow of herself, I followed all her recovery steps, her attempts to find a job and a new house to build a new life. Now She is a beautiful small woman who loves life, has a boyfriend and dreams for a better future. I saw her sister Belen fall into the same network and Rosa's commitment, the eldest, in freeing them. I saw the desperation of their father Luis, without work, alone with no expectations for him and his daughters. I meet one by one all the pieces of the family scattered around Argentina and i went to Paraguay searching for the most important missing part: that mother who, for years, the girls didn't see. After a long research I found her and I knew of the existence of another sister that the girls did not even know.
Lucia and Belen are now recovering from drug addiction. The fight is to find them a place to live far away from the place where they were sold that put them in an extreme danger. Their stories are the same stories that sadly many young women live in Argentina today. It's estimated that only in Argentina 60000 women are prisoners of this terrible plague, a network that often manages women's and drug's trafficking being connected with Narcos cartels.