Description
In 1981, Tom Brungar from Norway was arrested at the Mexico City
airport, while smuggling cocaine from Peru to California. He then served
five years in Mexican prisons. Half the time was in four prisons in
Mexico City and the remainder on the notorious Islas des Marias. This
true story begins with Tom's history, career, global travels and
increasing drug addiction, resulting in his life-changing ordeal. It has
a strong anti-drug message and displays that inhumane prison treatment
and torture must stop in the name of humanity. Tom achieved the
seemingly impossible in order to survive, via amazing perseverance,
transformation of inner awareness, physical and psychological strength.
His intelligence, talents and ability to quickly learn the culture and
language helped amuse his fellow prisoners and captors. He and a Mexican
prison psychologist, Adriana, met and fell in love. She played a major
part, along with the Norwegian Embassy in Mexico City, in obtaining his
release. The Mirror Maze is multi-faceted, intertwining Tom's
personal, philosophical and spiritual life-changing revelations on a
background of socio-political issues. The title signifies the "Mirror"
he saw himself in and the "Maze" he traveled through to arrive at the
exit. Upon his release in 1986, Tom went back to Norway. He was
welcomed home and hired by the Norwegian government to assist immigrant
refugees. Our sweet Tom lived a peaceful life until age 65. His wish and
promise to God was that his story be told and we are carrying this out.
