The Payback

Claudia Lopez waits for her husband at Newark International Airport unaware that hes gone into hiding in the wake of a botched drug deal. Now eight hours after completing the long flight from Bolivia with their infant daughter shes stranded in the bustling arrivals building wondering what to do next. At first Margot Fortune the elegant and sympathetic woman who offers her a ride to Manhattan appears to be her salvation. Claudia will discover that appearances can be deceiving. Her world will be turned upside-down when adrift in an unforgiving city shes threatened with the kidnapping of her baby if she fails to pay back her husbands drug debt. As Claudia desperately searches for a way out of her nightmare Margot leads her on a harrowing tour of the Big Apples dark underbelly and into the shadowy world of high-priced prostitution drugs and violence.