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This article emerges from a long anthropological and historical study on the condition of victimhood and the Comprehensive Reparations Plan (PIR) in the localities of Huancasancos and Lucanamarca (Ayacucho, Peru). The PIR is part of the guidelines designed for post-conflict societies to reconcile or bring together the parties that were in conflict with the state. This study is part of an anthropology that addresses the state—the organizations that develop reparations—from the viewpoint of those who work within the PIR and who become the visible faces of the state itself. This approach placed the researchers in different roles during the study. This helped us to learn more about those who work within the PIR and also to take into account the recent local history when considering those who were part of armed groups during the conflict, as well as their current localization and situation. As such, we unpack the meanings and disagreements generated by the PIR in Peru.