A story of a girl named Laxmi represents thousands of young girls from rural areas, especially hill of Nepal. In this book, Laxmi has exemplified girls who have been blindfolded by their own uncle, relatives or strangers by giving hope of a job and convenient living in the future to a victim and her family.
In this book, Laxmi experiences and witnesses so many tragic events that breaks her hope of getting back to the homeland after being sold innocently. She has been sold to Calcutta, an unknown city of India and she neither know the language or direction to get back from the city. The filthy city kills her day by day but her innocence is still in the hope to get rid from there.
Being unable to trust anyone and because of the fear of a woman controlling the brothel, she could not even think of escaping. However, after several try, she gets rescued by the aid workers from the abroad to whom she was not able to trust but chose to believe them.
Like Laxmi, there were more girls who got rescued but there are still many girls who were manipulated to sell themselves, their organs, etc for the sake of getting basic needs to family. Moreover, in Nepal, there are many cases of girls and human trafficking. Although, they get rescued, they have faced traumatic stage which stay for a lifetime. So, why not focus more on educating village girls and families, stricken border, and there should be more strict punishment for such inhuman crimes.
Inspired from a novel written by a journalist Patricia McCormick, Jeffrey D. Brown directed a movie named “SOLD” which became an award-winning movie.