The gray sweatshirt tied around her waist, flopped up and down as she ran down the road at a steady pace. Fields of grass on the roadside changed into thickets of shrubs and groves of eucalyptus trees and then back into fields of grass -- as if she was running in a forbidden film. Sweat soaked the sides of her elasticized black tank top.

Ahead the road divided. With the sleeve of the sweatshirt around her waist, she wiped the sweat from her forehead.