"Black Rosie" - not a factual story, but one put together from different stories about things that have happened.

Plenty of cases of black women being imported as servants without papers and being effectively used as slaves and running away, and being frightened to get help, with good reason so far as official helping agencies are concerned.

There've been oil-rig disasters, of course, most notoriously the Piper Alpha disaster in 1988 in which 167 people died. There have been cases where, after the death of a man in an industrial accident, the fact that the women he was living with was an illegal immigrant has come to life, and she's been deported. And people faced with deportation or having their kids taken away have been known to kill themselves and even their children. This site includes cases of people killing themselves to avoid deportation.

So, no, it's not factual, but it's true to the facts. It could have happened. I started telling a story, and followed Rosie, and that's how it ended up.