Stories of heartbreak and stories of triumph are commonplace within developing countries with rampant prostitution and poor economies. A poor economy has direct influence in women who become prostitues and those who are taken without consent to a brothel to make money for others. This is prevalent in the stories of the women we meet in the book. Being a prostitue means becoming subject to the wants of your "owners" or you are otherwise brutally beaten and later becoming addicted to drugs. Those drugs (which are at times administered unknowingly to young girls to get compliance) allow for girls to be taken advantage of and subsequently used for their bodies. Because there is a focus in India, Cambodia, and Bangladesh are focal points of the reading so far. It is very easy to see that women are powerless and are victumized at a very high frequency. Perhaps because out of economic disstress where they enter willingly to the exposure to potentially contracting a sexually transmitted diseases and infections as well as pregnancy. Your sons may be taken and raised to be servants while your daughters are eventually prostituted. This is because of the customer's refusal to condoms and safe sex. They don't care. In a return to light, Neth found love in a man by the name Sothea. He found he could "love her to the end" and even though Neth was HIV positive (having later been found HIV negative close to the birth of her first child). She gave birth to a beautiful baby boy and brought up a business as Rath did also. Meena and Kuduz found love in the same way and I was overjoyed by their outcome as well. <3