Isidora is a beautiful, talents and smart Mexican American young woman. She stands before us with a long scar on the side of her face, a part of a memory that she would rather not speak of nor relive. She tells us her parents’ story of coming to America and how she spent all of her life making sure she was being a role model for her younger siblings while preparing herself for college. America was a scary place for her, and especially her parents. They feared that all of the things they had worked to escape in Mexico were all things that were still very possible here in America. But Isidora worked hard to gain their trust so that when she chose a large out of state school for college her parents would give their blessings. With much conversation they finally did but with that consent came a list of protocols to keep her safe, rules to be followed and Isidora happily complied. There is always that one night, the one night in our lives that a simple missed step changes the course of everything we knew to be true. On that night Isidora experiences a brutal attack that leaves her fight in for her life and blaming herself for the choice that she made. What we learn from her story is that sometimes within the best intentions a tragic situation can still arise. Isidora shows us that even in the midst of the worst nightmare of our lives we can still come out, thriving, healthy and working to still make our part of the world a better place. A different kind of survival story that is dipped in the reality that we all make small mistakes that can derail our life, but it is in the recovery that our persistence is truly shown. (*This character speaks minimal Spanish and the story could be cut to present her as any ethnicity.)