There is a slip of paper with a code of numbers on it. They recover a letter addressed to a prisoner named Gabriel Olondriz. Rat knows the key is for a locker at the Central Station, so the boys set out to open it. Rat lives at the bottom of a disused conveyor belt once used for bringing trash out on top of the piles. Gardo and Raphael hide the wallet at Rat's, knowing the police might search their homes. Raphael keeps quiet about the wallet, knowing it must be valuable if the police want them. They offer a cash reward of ten thousand pesos, and one hundred a day for searching for it. That night, the police come to Behala to ask if anyone has found the wallet. One day Raphael finds a wallet containing a map, a key, cash, and an ID card belonging to a man named José Angelico. Often they only find stupp-human excrement wrapped in paper-because many people don't have toilets. Rather than attend school, Raphael, Gardo, and Rat (Jun-Jun) pick through the trash hoping to find anything they can sell to help feed themselves and their families. Told in the voices of multiple first-person narrators, T rash follows three boys who live in Behala, a third-world shantytown next to a garbage dump.
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