Started in 2004, Las Estrellas de la Línea toured Guatemala playing football matches in an attempt to challenge the perceptions and prejudices of the public towards sex workers in Guatemala. Through football they hoped to put a human face to the stereotype of the ‘sex worker’. Their dream was to be treated with dignity and to live without police harrassment and the daily violence that threatened their lives. Although their reasons for working in the sex industry may vary some have their message is unequivocal: "Before we are prostitutes we are women and mothers!"

However, in a country where more than 2,200 women and girls have been murdered since 2001 and where the government seems uninterested in changing this, not everybody was ready to hear their message. Las Estrellas attempts to join a local soccer league were thwarted when they were expelled because they worked in the sex industry. Despite this, Las Estrellas managed to gain enough notoriety to make sure that their message was heard not only natiownide, but also internationally thanks to a Spanish documentary which covered their story.

Las Estrellas may not be able to claim that they changed the attitudes of Guatemalan society, but they can say that they were respected, by many, as women and as mothers.