It had been a few months since Bituin disappeared. Neither her parents nor the authorities could find her.
“Where are you? Have you found her yet?” Nieves asked her ex-husband Han-Gyeol on the phone. Her hand was on her forehead. She was seated in her swivel chair in her office at the hospital in San Francisco.
Nieves took a leave on the first two months that Bituin was missing. She had to go back to work when there was no sign of her, which broke the Filipina mother’s heart. She refused to believe that her daughter just went away and killed herself due to depression. She knew that even though her daughter was depressed, she wouldn’t kill herself.
Han-Gyeol hired a private investigator to search for their missing daughter as soon as he found out. It was he who discovered it first when h
