<P> Alice Bowman ( Meg Ryan ) moves to the ( fictional ) South American country of Tecala because her engineer husband , Peter Bowman ( David Morse ) , has been hired to help build a new dam for oil company Quad Carbon . Though Alice is unhappy at this most recent move , she agrees to stay . While driving one morning through the city , Peter is caught in traffic and then ambushed and abducted by guerrilla rebels of the Liberation Army of Tecala ( ELT ) . Believing that Peter is working on Quad Carbon 's oil pipeline , ELT soldiers lead him through the jungle . </P>
where does the movie proof of life take place
the ( fictional ) South American country of Tecala