Taylor's novel is a compelling, adventurous and surprisingly funny story of a middle age couple who lose their life savings and inadvertently find themselves in the underworld of Mexican immigrant smuggling. Initially the couple, Charlie and Denice, snuggle their cargo to the U.S. for money alone. However, over time they come to see this is not "cargo"but people with problems, dreams, and stories important and universal in a way Charlie and Denice never suspected. This novel is a rarely available perspective on immigration from the participants' point of view, complete with the palpable danger always present from other smugglers and the powerful U.S. Border Patrol.