The Forbidden Family Game

Jill W-was caught at cus­toms with three cakes of “hash” stuffed in a shoe in her lug­gage. She said of it:

“… In Mar­rakech you send out a boy with ten dir-hams and he brings you back three cakes of hash. Or maybe only two, and keeps one for him­self. Do you know how much ten dirhams is? Two dol­lars. One ninety-eight, if you want to be ac­cur­ate. Do you think that for two dol­lars I’d risk go­ing to jail?”

Con­vinced that her drug-ad­dict brother secreted the hash in her lug­gage, she tells her story of their sor­did re­la­tion­ship.