In the very title of the novel, LOVE AND DARKNESS by Allende, there is a contrast. The world of love is opposed by the darkness that covered Chile in September 1973 with the coming to power of Pinochet’s regime. The heroine, a journalist Irene Beltrán, along with her lover, a photographer, accidentally stumbles upon a secret burial place of the regime’s victims—brutally murdered by the police. And instead of a measured, prosperous life, a living hell opens up. The girl can’t keep silent—news about the corpses in an abandoned mine becomes known to the whole world. And so the story of Latin American Romeo and Juliet turns into a tale of the triangle “Romeo, Juliet, and darkness.” But can anyone survive a duel with darkness? Will the book’s heroes manage to live and remain human?