For twenty-five years, a reclusive American novelist has been writing at the desk she inherited from a young chilean Poet who disappeared at the hands Of Pinochet's secret police, one day a girl claiming to be The Poet's...For twenty-five years, a reclusive American novelist has been writing at the desk she inherited from a young chilean Poet who disappeared at the hands Of Pinochet's secret police, one day a girl claiming to be The Poet's daughter arrives to take it away, sending The Writer's life reeling.