Ariel Dorfman's explosively provocative, award-winning drama is set in a
country that has only recently returned to democracy. Gerardo Escobar
has just been chosen to head the commission that will investigate the
crimes of the old regime when his car breaks down and he is picked up by
the humane doctor Roberto Miranda. But in the voice of this good
Samaritan, Gerardo's wife, Paulina Salas, thinks she recognizes another
man--the one who raped and tortured her as she lay blindfolded in a
military detention center years before.