When the author takes a day trip to Tijuana, he's just after a couple stiff drinks and an escape from the rigors of being a front man for a international billion-dollar computer company. What he finds instead is a run-down orphanage full of malnourished, haunted children and the ardent Madres who watch over them. At the Casa, the orphans have bags under their eyes and harbor strange secrets. They keep their eyes glued to the floor and they cling to the stucco corners of the compound, shying away from visitors despite their eagerness to explore anything connected with the outside world. Into this hive stumbles Bob, with the lone goal of testing out his fancy American computers on the Spanish-speaking children. But he soon loses his focus when he meets Guillermina, a sickly yet precocious eight-year-old whose genuine smile wins his cold, tired heart almost immediately. But as Guillermina's English skills improve, so does her ability to reveal the nuns' secrets, secrets which threaten the core of Mexican society and Catholic rule. While the author and Guillermina attempt to forge a happy path to adoption, details about the Casa begin to surface from their quiet depths, and the pair soon fears for their lives. Guillermina and the Rose is a true story of a relationship formed in the midst of chaos and corruption. Despite the problems that besiege them and the trials they must face, the author and Guillermina never doubt their love and need for each other, and their faith is a testament to what is possible when we hold tight to hope and have faith. All is completed when a rose is presented to Guillermina in a crowd from a child that no one sees but her and her new father. Yet, Guillermina holds a rose from out of nowhere