Chapter 84

One of the men began to talk about what they were about to do, which was to get in the Range Rover and drive into the mountains to meet with the elders of a particular village. The point of view shifted, and I realized that someone was now holding the camera—it had been mounted on a tripod before—and we watched the tripod being folded up and stashed in the Range Rover.

The scene shifted to the passenger seat of the vehicle, the camera pointed out through the windshield as the Rover pulled off of a narrow paved road and onto a gravel track barely wide enough to accommodate it. There were various shots of increasingly rugged terrain until finally, a small cluster of perhaps five or six stone buildings appeared. Two men stepped out of the shadows from between the buildings and the Rover came to a halt. The driver said, “Here we go,” and they got out of the car.