SoldLakshmi's family is desperately poor, but village life in the mountains of Nepal has its share of pleasures. When the monsoons wreck their crops yet again, Lakshmi's stepfather says she must leave home and take a job to support her family. She arrives at Happiness House full of hope, but soon learns the unthinkable truth she has been sold into prostitution. This new world becomes a nightmare from which there is no escape. But, very gradually, Lakshmi