Nadia Alvarez, a fifteen-year-old Mexican immigrant who travels from a remote and poverty stricken village in southern Mexico with her family to the United States. They sneak illegally into the country through a drain pipe that connects from Sonora, Mexico to Arizona. As the family enters into the country, the Border Patrol is waiting for them and they are captured all except for Nadia. Assuming the identity of her brother, she is now alone in an unknown country and torn whether she should allow herself to be caught and reunited with her family, or continue on in American and live her parents' dream of a better life. Nadia does eventually make her way across the country to end up in Minnesota, residing in a home on Lake Harriet in Minneapolis. Chasing the Moon creates a love triangle between Nadia, her home and family in Mexico, and her new “better” life in America. This is a unique and unbiased examination of immigration and what it means to search for “a better life.”
