Maitland Sutterfield is a San Francisco journalist who has just
been through an exhausting divorce. He takes a writer's holiday,
accepting an assignment as a reporter in Guatemala. In full flight
from his personal demons, Sutterfield seeks peace in a beautiful
land unlike his own - but this is Guatemala of the 1980s, and there
is a brutal civil war underway. Instead of peace, Sutterfield finds
the perils of love in a time of revolution, not to mention the
moral quandaries of a country that is descending into madness.
Maitland's main contact in Guatemala is Sofia Mendez, who takes him
to a small Catholic mission in the highlands run by a
Spanish-trained Jesuit priest. Maitland volunteers at the mission,
convinced that the priest's ministry is a vivid example of the
Liberation Theology movement about which he hopes to write the
definitive book-length analysis. But complications abound when
Sofia becomes Maitland's lover, before either he or Sofia have a
chance to discuss the real nature of her previous vocation.
Maitland is oppressively aware of the subtle but inevitable
exploitation of third-world sources by first-world media, but the
tables are turned as he finds himself trapped in a dangerous
dilemma in which Sofia's needs dictate both their futures.
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