2008.12.14_live For Cover

A true contemporary story told through letters written from inside a soviet era foreign prison. Wrongfully imprisoned, isolated, tortured, abandoned by his own country and believing his death to be imminent, Kapoustin writes his infant son telling him it was better to live for something and make a difference than to die for nothing. On February 6th 1996 Kapoustin becomes the first documented case of a pre 911 secret rendition of a citizen of Canada to a foreign state. The government of Canada and the RCMP secretly secured cooperation of the German Government in handing Kapoustin over to Bulgarian interrogators. Canada knows Bulgaria will isolate and torture Kapoustin, but the RCMP wants information and Canada does not want Kapoustin. After years of isolation, torture and public humiliation Kapoustin’s innocence becomes a political embarrassment to both Canada and Bulgaria. The solution, a trumped-up criminal charge that will keep Kapoustin exiled and imprisoned in a Bulgarian maximum security prison for 12 years and 6 months. Kapoustin’s first 3 years are spent in the chill and brutality of a solitary confinement cell. A lonely, dark and foreboding place whose conditions break even the strongest mind and body. It is from inside this damp and lightless concrete hell that Kapoustin pens letters to an infant son he never expects to know. Smuggled out by supporters the letters reach a baby, but they are written to the young man Kapoustin hopes his son will one day become. The Years in Solitary is the story of father’s love for a beloved son and of a renewed holy covenant. It is the history of a people and a family as embodied into one man’s struggle to go beyond survival and see beyond the pain of constant beatings and daily terror. To Live for Something is to defeat fear by embracing it and stealing from the fodder to survive and make a difference.

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