Picture a rundown house with an unkempt lawn surrounded by trees at the end of a dirt road.

In a room in this house, there's a young woman, and she has a plan.

It's June 2011.

The Texas air is hot and humid.

It's the kind of air people complain about.

But all this woman wants to do is breathe it in.

She's been under watch, forced to stay inside this home for weeks at a time, made to endure

harsh words, beatings.

Punishment for things like texting.

Today, all that might just end, because today is her chance to break free.

She says she's going to take a shower.

She walks to the bathroom and locks the door behind her.

Imagine her heart beating fast, her breathing picking up, and as she ponders the unknowable

she wonders, is it too risky?

The young woman opens the bathroom window, squeezes through it, and her feet land on the

ground.

She starts to hurry.

Her first moments of real freedom, she's actually doing this.

She gulps in the thick air, and she runs, and runs, and runs.

She has escaped, for now.

But these few moments would cause collateral damage.

They would endanger more than just her safety, and they would start a chain reaction that

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