"I seek the truth where the official record falls silent.

I seek it in the amber eyes of the YPJ Kurdish warriors, who, beneath the sun of the Zagros Mountains, guard a freedom that the modern world fails to understand.

I seek it in the pens of the lawyers in Lima, who twenty years ago united to defy the judges who imposed the maximum sentence upon defendants solely because of the color of their skin.

And I seek it in the hands of a slave surgeon in colonial Lima, who, with silk threads and forbidden science, healed the bodies that the Academy had already condemned to oblivion.

I do not tell stories to entertain. I tell them so that the names erased by time may be spoken once again. I am a storyteller of lost histories."