When she was washing the pot, it slipped from her hand and the pot fell into the heavy wash. The pot was her grandmother, it was something special to her that had just broken. She started thinking about the pot that her grandmother and mother both use to stir beans. Her husband Jose began complaining of pain in his face when two purple bulbs continued to grow and grow, which was actually a plague that had spread. Tomasita has lost everything. His friends built him a two-room house out of scrap metal next to the river. Tomasita was never the same when all this happened to her, so she started harvesting blackberries to dry. She always sat by the river after leaving work. Tomasita was accused of making the river change color because of all the blackberries going into it. She was arrested by Mexican soldiers because of the river changing color. She was taken to the convent for more than fifteen years. Sister Adela learned to read Tomasita's facial expression to know what she wanted. When Tomasita left the convent, she was followed by the police, she was pointed at a gun but did not follow the authorities' orders. When they shot