If your inbox read '1 New Message', and you saw the name of the man who had kidnapped you, what would you do? Filmmaker Mark Henderson had to answer this unusual question after his 2003 kidnapping by a group of Marxist guerillas in Colombia. After 5 years, Mark finally decided that he, along with 3 of his fellow captors, would go to investigate Antonio's causes and means. The only woman to suffer through the 101 day trial, Reinhilt Weigel from Germany had come home to further trials by the government who rescued her, as well as feelings of doubt and fear that were putting a halt to her life as she'd known it.
Since the event, Antonio has been able to forge a new life with a female who also participated in the kidnapping. Many questions that our protagonists find unable to ask the rebels themselves, they learn the answers to during their travels through towns they were sequestered away within. When the penalty for disturbing the status quo is death - and you made it out alive - the kidnapped learn how hard it is to hold someone responsible for not helping you gain your own freedom sooner.
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