Task: Story Composition
Input (English): Fact1: income helps support family including unemployed sister, Fact2: Maria On way to is offered position as drug mule Bogota to find new job, Fact3: Blanca has been recruited as drug mule and Lucy, Fact4: father of child paid for plane ticket, Fact5: sister hears of involvement in sister 's death
Output (English): Seventeenyearold Colombian girl Maria Alvarez works in sweat shoplike conditions at a flower plantation. Her income helps support her family, including an unemployed sister who is a single mother, but after unjust treatment from her boss, she quits her job dethorning roses, despite her familys vehement disapproval. Shortly thereafter, Maria discovers she is pregnant by her boyfriend, and he suggests marriage, but she declines because she does not feel she loves him, or that he loves her. On her way to Bogota to find a new job, she is offered a position as a drug mule. Desperate, she accepts the risky offer, and swallows 62 wrapped pellets of drugs, and flies to New York City with her friend Blanca, who has also been recruited as a drug mule, and Lucy, who has made the dangerous journey before. Maria is almost caught by U.S. customs who are suspicious after finding Marias 800 in cash and wanting to make a surprise visit to a sister she hasnt seen in years, but not knowing anywhere else to go if she isnt home. She tells them that the father of her child paid for her plane ticket. She avoids being Xrayed due to her pregnancy, and is released. The traffickers collect Maria, Blanca, and Lucy, another more experienced mule that Maria had befriended during her recruitment. The mules are held in a motel room until they pass all the drug pellets. Lucy falls ill when a drug pellet apparently ruptures inside her. Unknown to the traffickers, Maria witnesses them carrying Lucy out of the hotel room, and she sees blood stains in the bathtub. She comes to the conclusion that the traffickers cut her open to retrieve the other drug pellets inside her body. Scared, Maria convinces Blanca to escape with her while the traffickers are gone. They leave with the drugs they have passed. Maria has nowhere to sleep, and goes to Lucys sisters house, but doesnt reveal to the sister that Lucy is dead. Blanca soon joins her there. Eventually the sister unexpectedly hears of their involvement in her sisters death and throws them out. Blanca and Maria make an agreement to return the drugs to the traffickers and receive their money. Maria uses some of her drug money to send Lucys body home to Colombia for a proper burial. Maria and Blanca are ready to board the plane back to Colombia when Maria decides to stay in the United States. Blanca returns home without Maria.