“Daniela,” she said carefully.

“Your parents gave a very different statement.”

According to Arthur and Patricia Rios, I had suffered a violent psychological breakdown.

I had, they claimed, attacked my father without provocation, and then run out into the night, alone, on foot, and they had no idea, none whatsoever, how I had come to be injured and abandoned miles away.

They were not, Ramirez made clear, remorseful.

They were not confused or grieving.