Episode
Highlights
LEMONADE
From the sky you receive lemons, and you need to learn how to make lemonade.
—ESTELA

Estela | Photo: Courtesy of The Westerly Sun
I COULD FLY
“I feel like a bird in a cage. Like. OK. I’m beautiful. I could fly, but they don’t let me!”
—ESTELA
A BAD SHAKEUP
“I told him, ‘Get out from here’ at like Exit 2. And he said, ‘What happened?’ And I told him, ‘I don’t feel good.’ And I just opened the door and get down, and I start walking, walking and crying, and I said, ‘I don’t want this life. I don’t really want this life. I feel so bad. I can’t grow. And I’m not myself. I don’t know. I don’t like it!’ I walk a mile and finally my kids convince me to get in the car, and he bring me back home. But I was crying and crying and crying, and I said, ‘Everything we have here is not enough. Like I don’t feel free, because I can’t do anything. I continue studying. I continue preparing myself, but for what?’”
—ESTELA
UNCLEAR
She’s living with a lot of uncertainty, especially after the 2016 election.
RUPTURING A LIFE
I don’t think it’s fair because, first of all, I mean you’re not supposed to kick someone out just because they’re not born there. Because technically they’ve already settled and made their life. That’s just like kicking someone out of their house for no reason.
—JORGE, ESTELA’S SON
A DEPRESSION
“I never feel depression in Mexico. Never, never, never. But here, I feel sometimes, like: What is the reason? What is next?”
—ESTELA