"Leila Mashal, a medical doctor trained at Wits, has taken up politics. Her platform is a single issue: freedom. In declaring her candidacy, she wishes to make public her belief that {u2018}while South Africans hold the vote, they don{u2019}t hold the power{u2019}. She is also the wife of Tariq Hassan, a renowned photojournalist whose abduction from a Johannesburg hotel made international headlines. Held in solitary confinement in an unstated locale, Tariq contemplates his isolation, his life{u2019}s work, his longing for Leila, the nature of time, and the torturous effects of abject isolation on his mind"--Publisher's website.