ingrid bettencourt is a very strong character. and so many people do have a lot of differing opinions of her. and karin and i, i had met ingrid before we started the film for one hour while she was on book tour for her first book in 2002; right? january. i had thought this would be a great way to sort of tell the story of the beauty of columbia that i had felt -- that i had felt when i was there researching my first book. which was about a volcanic disaster, historical. i want to tell a modern day story. let's follow ingrid. karin and i were making plans to go down there and cover her. i had no experience. karin had. i knew she spoke spanish well. we are on our way down there. she was kidnapped. telling her story through her own narration which is cut together from various interviews on npr, c-span, things she had done. she had a beautiful voice. she narrates her story in the beginning. however, we never really got to know ingrid ourselves. the film became about her husband at the time, juan carlos lacompte, he was the motorcycle r