“Prayers for the Stolen” is a story of a young Mexican girl who grows up in a rural mountain community of Guerrero, Mexico where being a girl is a dangerous thing and where drug lords are kings and girls are stolen in broad daylight. Ladydi and her mother Rita go through a lot of challenge. And Ladydi mother Rita did anything she could to protect her child and change their life situation. Ladydi is called a boy by her mother Rita. Turning girls in to boys or at least making them ugly is common in that community. Rita force ladydi to color her teeth with black and yellow markers to make them look rotted. She always cut her hair short to make her look like an ugly boy. She do all this things to keep her girl from the drug traffickers.
