"It was mid-afternoon on Christmas Eve when the train arrived in Paragon Station. Forty-eight hours earlier I had been squinting in the scorching brightness of Buenos Aires' summer sun. Now it was really dark, like night, and misty and cold." The 11 September 1973 was the day things changed for ever for many like the author: the free-market model was adopted by the Chilean dictatorship and the country became its test ground, leading to a chain of events that included imprisonment, uprooting, exile and resettlement in foreign lands. A number of people living and working in Hull organised for exiled Chileans to settle in the town.