: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.
:21:15
But you must wrest her
from her grief, her solitude.
:21:18
She knows
where to find Roberto today...
:21:22
among all these houses which empty
as the weekend draws to a close...
:21:26
among all these lights
on a Sunday night.
:21:27
Roberto organizes the crossings.
:21:30
Only he will know
where to find Juan today.
:21:32
He alone can catch up with Juan
before he too vanishes.
:21:36
Roberto hates bad news.
:21:38
An arrest gets on his nerves...
:21:41
not just because it means
losing a comrade...
:21:43
not just because of the months
and years of work...
:21:46
to be done over from scratch...
:21:47
but becauee the reality
of the world resists us...
:21:50
because our actions seem
like a dream of indefinite progress.
:21:53
He hates when reality
clashes with his dream.
:21:56
It's as if he blames you...
:21:58
for being the malicioue messenger
of the opaque reality...