All the pain of the tragedy that has befallen their family is etched in the crumpled faces of Shigeru and Sakie Yokota.
Most parents can only imagine the horror of losing a child, but after years of believing daughter Megumi was the victim of a random attack in 1977, the Yokotas learned that she had been snatched by North Korean spies. They still don't know if she is alive or dead.
The scale of their suffering is almost enough to forgive the choices they've made in their struggle to uncover Megumi's fate: riding sidesaddle with neonationalists who care more about squaring up to Pyongyang than rescuing its victims, for instance; or seeking help from George W. Bush, whose administration is not above state-sponsored kidnappings -- known these days as "renditions."