Sold Summary It is about a 13 year old girl named Lakshmi, and she lives in a village shack in the Himalayas of Nepal. Lakshmi doesn’t know anything beyond her little village in Nepal. She wants to make money for her family, so she sets of as a maid to go to the city. Little does she know that the people her step-father sold her to were going to use her as a prostitute. She ends up in a brothel, and doesn’t know it until she is raped the first day she is there. She is put into a room where she has to leer men in to make her money so that she can leave as quickly as possible. She soon finds out that it will take her nearly her whole life to get free of her debt. Later on, she meets this American man and he lets her know that she is going to be saved and will be removed from that house. The man stays truthful to his word and three weeks later comes barging into the brothel with plenty of police, and sets everyone free.