:19:00
Andres failed to show up
at the Botanical Gardens.
:19:03
You had a beer
at the Cafe Nacional.
:19:06
You thought nothing of it.
:19:08
You assumed you'd see Andres
at the next meeting place.
:19:10
But toward nightfall
came signs of approaching danger.
:19:14
The comrade who operates
the print shop failed to come home.
:19:17
His brother notified the others.
:19:19
The closed little world we live in...
:19:22
became unsettled
and full of snares.
:19:30
Carmen?
:19:33
You here?
:19:43
What is it?
Is something wrong?
:19:51
Andres?
What's happened to Andres?
:20:00
By Friday it was clear
that Andres had disappeared...
:20:03
and Luis and Jueto and Ricardo.
:20:05
In the shadows we began to fight...
:20:08
the unpredictable progress
of the police roundups...
:20:10
severing the links
that bound one group to another...
:20:14
suspending all meetings, all contacts,
setting new liaison networks.
:20:19
But Andres had disappeared--
he has disappeared.
:20:22
He could have disappeared
any day now for 15 years.
:20:24
Carmen had expected, already accepted,
in anguish and rage...
:20:28
this disappearance
that bursts upon her today.
:20:31
Thursday evening at 6:00 p.m...
:20:33
Andres did not show up
at the Botanical Gardens.