In the cruel, brutal world of the "maras"- Latin American gangs-violence, suffering, and crime batter flesh and are on display on members' tattooed bodies. Death is the only way out. Initiated into a gang in El Salvador at the age of thirteen, Samuel Santos finds a way to escape a few years later... at an impossibly high price. Now, in Caracas, where he's found some redemption, Samuel must seize his only chance to regain a part of himself-a part that had been ripped from him fourteen years earlier.
Will he finally be able to write a new future over the tattoos from his past?
In the cruel, brutal world of the "maras"- Latin American gangs-violence, suffering, and crime batter flesh and are on display on members' tattooed bodies. Death is the only way out. Initiated into a gang in El Salvador at the age of thirteen, Samuel Santos finds a way to escape a few years later... at an impossibly high price. Now, in Caracas, where he's found some redemption, Samuel must seize his only chance to regain a part of himself-a part that had been ripped from him fourteen years earlier.
Will he finally be able to write a new future over the tattoos from his past?