Plot Chart

Plot Chart
o Children discover Matt and take him to the big house.
o Matt is imprisoned because he is a clone.
o Maria and Celia rescue Matt and take him to El Patron, a powerful drug lord and the man who he is a clone of.
o Matt is educated, and grows up under the guard of Tam Lin, the care of Celia, the rivalry of Tom, and the friendship of Maria.
o At one of El Patron’s birthday parties, Maria and Matt get into a fight, and while trying to make up, Matt accidently tells Maria’s father that he, a dirty clone, loves Maria and Maria’s father take Maria away.
o Matt’s life becomes steadily more depressing until the funeral for El Patron’s grandson, who is Tom’s grandfather, where Maria forgives him.
o At Steven (Tom’s brother) and Emilia's (Maria’s sister) wedding Maria tells Matt that she loves him, but afterward El Patron has a heart attack and Matt realizes the horrible truth: He exists to be killed for a heart transplant so El Patron will live longer.
o When he is brought in for a transplant, Celia reveals that she has been poisoning Matt just enough so that he can’t be used for transplants.
o Tam Lin helps Matt escape from El Patron’s country to Atzlan, where Matt is taken to an orphanage run by the harsh keeper’s.
o Matt makes friends with three other boys held by the keepers, and together they escape to San Luis, where Maria is.
o Matt meet’s Maria’s mother, who explains to Matt that he is really human, in soul and international law.
o Matt returns to El Patron’s opium land only to find out that El Patron arranged to have almost everyone at the place where Matt grew up to die, but Matt swears to take Opium and make into a non-drug non-border land.