She was also really trapped.

Both are true, and the accounting should hold both.

If I let it hold only the half that condemns her, then I’ve decided the truth for my own comfort — and I’ve had quite enough of people deciding things for their own comfort at my expense.”

Chapter 20 — The Cooperation

So it was recorded that way, honestly.

Soledad gave a full account to the authorities and cooperated completely — the drawing, the passages, the years of Matías’s demands, the exact shape of her own coercion and her own choices.

She did not minimize what she had done, and she did not inflate what had been done to her.