EPISODE 14: THE BEGINNING OF THE END

By the time I got back to Krome… something in me had changed.The fear was quieter.The anger was fading.And the hope I saw in the newer detainees felt unfamiliar now.As the pandemic spread through the world outside, life inside detention kept moving the same — quarantine dorms, rumors, phone calls, card games, and men trying to convince themselves everything would somehow work out.Some still believed they were going home to America.I wasn’t so sure anymore.This was the point where survival turned into acceptance.The beginning of the end.