Part 1. Meeting Maria -- In the shadow of DISA -- The saboteurs, the parasites, the opportunists -- When normal things don't go normally -- Fascism was finished, socialism had begun -- Just like the movies -- The brother -- Sounds of microfiche -- Never meet your heroes -- Sent to Cuba -- Closing in on the kill -- Part 2. So many dragonflies -- Saved by a poet -- To Sambizanga -- The little red book -- Kilometre fourteen -- Cold War paradox -- Appearances -- A death camp -- Metamorphoses of the enemy -- On the beach -- How our heads are formed -- Part 3. Loose ends -- A Cuba connection.