You live in district twelve. You’re a Seam girl. After your mother dies (you never knew your father), you aren’t able to earn her earnings anymore, as she used to be a mender. You begin to starve, but you don’t want a life in the mines, so you do the only thing many other starving and desperate women do: sell your bodies to the Peacekeepers. And Cray is the one that pays coins in abundance if you do it right.