In the early 1980s, in the midst of Central America's decades of dirty wars, Nora Miselem of Honduras and Maria Su rez Toro of Costa Rica were kidnapped and subjected to rape and other tortures. Of the nearly two hundred disappeared persons in Honduras in those years, they are, remarkably, two of only five survivors. Fourteen years after their ordeal, Su rez and Miselem's chance meeting at a conference on human rights was witnessed by and is now...