abu sayyaf still had kevin and her cousin.ll them at any time they wanted. >> and i felt her dark place, just being a mother myself. and it was awful. >> reporter: and before long her terror deepened. when she learned her cousin got out, too. which meant that there in that awful place her 14-year-old son, no one left to protect him, was all alone. >> i remember seeing that picture of her that was in the news. and she just looked so sad. like she just looked so sad and helpless. >> reporter: this is gerfa. and here, even five years later, the memory is brutal. we brought her back here to the philippines and asked her to tell us her story. the story that began at 2:00 o'clock in the morning, at the end of a happy family reunion, on a beach just about like this one. >> it does take you back. you know, you can hear the water, the waves. you can feel the wind. you see the evening sky. the stars. >> it was a beautiful thing. >> it was a beautiful morning. >> yeah. >> suddenly i saw from the left side two men running really fast, lik