At nine years old, Javier Zamora leaves his small town in El Salvador with nothing but hope and a promise. His parents wait in the United States. The “trip,” they tell him, will take two weeks. Instead, it becomes a two-month odyssey across three countries—by boat, bus, and foot—through danger, kindness, and courage no child should ever need.
Traveling alone with strangers, Javier faces the raw edges of survival: hunger, arrest, exhaustion, and the crushing uncertainty of each border. Yet amid fear, he finds unexpected family and fleeting moments of grace that keep him moving forward.
Told with a poet’s precision and a survivor’s heart, Solito captures the peril and power of migration—and the enduring pull of home.
