A woman is drying incense sticks, a process in making incense. Vietnamese believe that incense is a tool to connect the living with the spirits. When people burn incense, they can talk to spirits and pray.
After her daughter, then 23, disappeared 12 years ago, the likely victim of sex traffickers, Susana Trimarco began a search for justice that continues to this day. She has also helped numerous others in the process, becoming a guardian to 129 former sex slaves and helping to make sex trafficking part of Argentina’s national agenda.
For her trouble, Susana has had her house set on fire and has twice escaped being run over. But she will not give up. “The desperation of a mother blinds you,” she said. “It makes you fearless.”
