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Panama, 1950's: a little girl is sold to a farm, a young boy flees Colombia on a raft. Panama, 1980's: a teenager risks her life for food during The Invasion, a sailor smuggles denim into Cuba. And the product of all their efforts is born in 1991, only to rot inside a locked room in Europe, almost thirty years old, until he meets his daemon. According to Socrates, a daemon is the internalized divinity in each of us, be it a guardian angel, a friendly ghost, or an aspiration: the daemon is the personification of our true self, a representation of what remains when all the lies we've told ourselves are shed and burnt. The Stoics called it: Logos. But the ..