In this story by Luisa Valenzuela a woman describes a visit by her lover, an Argentinian resistance leader, after a mysterious six months’ absence. After a night of passionate lovemaking, when she wakes up he is gone. Arrested and tortured to divulge his whereabouts, she copes by telling herself the visit didn’t happen. She is so successful that by the end of the story she (and readers) are left wondering whether the visitor was real, a dream, or her dead lover’s spirit. Themes include love, sexuality, gender roles, oppression, paranoia, violence, memory and imagination, the supernatural.