Munoz is a 22 year old single mother who lives with her grandmother in a very small rural village near the town of Salamanca. It is a six hour bus ride to La Serena. Her house is very small and primitive. There is no running water and no electricity.
Water is carried from a river and boiled for drinking purposes.
Roxanna's grandmother is helping her for now, and as soon as she is able, she will try to get a job as a maid. The father of the child wants to marry her as soon as he can. However, he is a lowly paid farmhand and is often gone to transport animals to Argentina. When the doctor who delivered the child realized that it had a cleft lip and palate, he immediately arranged for her to come to La Serena and Rotaplast. When the child was born, Roxanna was very sad but had no intention of rejecting it.