<Li> Roberto Miranda--a doctor, around fifty </Li> <P> The time is the present and the place, a country that is probably Chile but could be any country that has given itself a democratic government just after a long period of dictatorship . </P> <P> Paulina Salas is a former political prisoner in an unnamed Latin American country who had been raped by her captors, led by a sadistic doctor whose face she never saw . The rapist doctor played Schubert's composition Death and the Maiden during the act of rape; hence the play's title . </P> <P> Years later, after the (also unnamed) repressive regime has fallen, Paulina lives in an isolated country house with her husband, Gerardo Escobar . When Gerardo comes back from a visit to the president, he gets a flat tire . A stranger named Dr. Miranda stops to assist him . Dr. Miranda drives Gerardo home and later in the night he returns . Paulina recognizes Miranda's voice and mannerism as that of her rapist, and takes him captive in order to put him on trial and extract a confession from him . </P>

Where does death and the maiden take place