A true contemporary story

told through letters written

from inside a soviet era for-
eign prison. Wrongfully
imprisoned, isolated, tor-
tured, abandoned by his own
country and believing his
death to be imminent,
Kapoustin writes his infant
son telling him it was better
to live for something and
make a difference than to die
for nothing.
On February 6th 1996 Kapoustin becomes the first documented case of a pre 9-
11 secret rendition of a citizen of Canada to a foreign state. The government of
Canada and the RCMP secretly secure cooperation of the German Government
in handing Kapoustin over to Bulgarian interrogators. Canada knows Bulgaria
will isolate and torture Kapoustin, but the RCMP wants information and
Canada does not want Kapoustin. After years of isolation, torture and public
humiliation Kapoustin’s innocence becomes a political embarrassment to both
Canada and Bulgaria. The solution, keep Kapoustin exiled and imprisoned in a
Bulgarian maximum security prison for 12 years and 6 months.
Kapoustin’s first 3 years are spent in the chill and brutality of a solitary con-
finement cell. A lonely, dark and foreboding place whose conditions break even
the strongest mind and body. It is from inside this damp and windowless con-
crete hell that Kapoustin pens letters to a son he never expects to meet.
Smuggled out by a variety of means, the letters speak about a holy covenant
that gives Kapoustin the mental and physical stamina to endure the constant
beatings, the of an imminent death and expected lifetime in a Bulgarian prison.
The son hears that to defeat fear requires his embracing it the same way he
would a lover, and that surviving is alone not enough. If you survive then go
out and to make a difference.

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