Mother of God, her light doesn't reach all of her territory. In this part of eastern Peru, human trafficking and the disappearance of minors are a path of no return. The poverty rate in almost the entire department is a vicious cycle. And the extraction of gold from the earth for a few grains is man's ambition. Kilometer 107 of the Interoceanic Highway is the midpoint of a hell on earth. Here, prostitution is practiced for the illegal miners. At every point, there's a line of girls, no older than 25… they are women, forced into prostitution. This act is accompanied by the thousands of hectares of land ravaged by illegal mining. This infernal place is the Pampa. The area is a catastrophic environmental stain beyond repair. The extraction of gold from the earth has caused irreparable damage to the habitat. The police remove these illegal workers, but like a dormant virus, the illicit activity continues, with dredges (machines for extracting gold from the ground) draining the earth's resources like an injection draining blood from a vein. Illegal mining, organized crime, and human trafficking seem endless. Yet, we continue to gaze upon the plain of destruction from a place that humankind itself has transformed into a hell.