While the Coast Guard searchlight scans the boat, Isabel’s mother says that the baby is coming. Isabel watches the searchlight scan the water, and it stops on another boat, a raft full of refugees. While the Coast Guard ship maneuvers to intercept the other boat, Isabel and everyone else paddle for shore. Isabel’s mother cries out loudly as Iván’s father yells for everyone to row. Isabel worries that they are still too far from shore and that the Coast Guard will catch them and send them back to Cuba.
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