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The story is in a third world country in a very poor place.
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There are three main characters, Rat, Gardo, and Raphael. All three of them are really poor and make a living by selling trash. Gardo is the oldest of the three. Raphael and Rat are the same age. They all are very bright.
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Raphael finds a bag one day that has a wallet, a key, and a picture of a little girl inside of it while picking though the trash.
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The police come to the dumpsite a day after Raphael finds the bag and offer money for people to help search for a bag that was thrown away. There was a special reward for the person and there family if they found the certain bag.
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After two days of searching, Raphael`s aunt says that he had found something. Raphael then had to lie, and the police got suspicious of him.
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Raphael gave Rat the wallet to hide from the police because the police don`t know about Rat and how he lives underground with actual rats.
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During the night, the police come into the Bahala dump and forcefully take Raphael away from his home to interrigate him on the missing bag.
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The three boys go to the train station. When the boys find the locker, Rat opens it and they find a sectret letter from Jose Angellico. It says that he was probably dead by then. Also, there was a strange set of numbers at the very end of the note.
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Gardo tricks Sister Olivia into taking him to go to Colva Prison and see Gabriel Olondriz, Jose Angellico`s grandfather. Gardo learns that the strange in the note are a code that is dicifened in a bible that Olondriz is giving to a guard that is to sell it to Gardo.
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The prisoner gives Gardo a coded bible. He doesnt know what its for.
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The three boys crack the code of a bible. They find out that they need to go to a graveyard.
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They try to arrest Gardo after he gives the cops the bible so, he rips the bible out of a cops hands and runs away.
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The boys finally manage to find the solution of the code. The solution leads them to go to the city cemetery.
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The boys find Angelico's daughter and with her also the money of Senator Zapanta.
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The guys return to Behala and throw the money in the air.
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The guys leave Behala and go to Sampalo for a better future.
