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Alicia Partnoy

This character is a Jewish writer, poet and human rights activist who was captured by the military junta in Argentina.

Graciela Alicia Romero de Metz

This character is forced to run around a table in the Little School for "exercise" and is heavily pregnant.

Partnoy's Husband

This person is tortured because the guards think Alicia's poem about the stream is about a guerrilla leader.

Zulma

Twenty-four when she was arrested, she was one of Partnoy's closest companions and was killed around April 13th, 1977.

Maria Elena Romero

Another one of Partnoy's closest friends, only seventeen when she was arrested, she was shot the night of April 12th.

Gustavo Benja Marcelo

Arrested at the same time as Maria Elena, he was also only seventeen years old and was shot the same night.

Maria Ferrari

She and her friend Elizabeth Freres were studying biochemistry at college when they were...

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