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Íso, a young Guatemalan woman, works at a fertility clinic at Ixchel, in the highlands of the Sierra Madre de Chiapas.

David Bergen has created an indelible portrait of a seemingly ordinary woman who struggles to accept herself as she is, and in so doing becomes unique.

"Born in 1930 in a small town outside Winnipeg, beautiful Hope Koop appears destined to have a conventional life.