1990: doctoral student Maggie Grayson travels to Brazil, still emerging from a repressive military dictatorship, to conduct research on its political transformation to democracy. Soon after arriving, she encounters a Brazilian journalist and becomes embroiled in uncovering the military's secret nuclear weapons program, learning of people who have been 'disappeared' by the regime. Meanwhile, a nine-year old boy has been kidnapped by a street gang controlled by a macumba priest...
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