Héctor Alterio, Norma Aleandro, Chela
Ruiz, Chunchuna Villafane, Hugo Arana.
This is an emotionally gripping, fictional
look at a couple torn apart by the infamous Argentine campaign of
killings and torture that sent thousands of accused terrorists to
unmarked graves in the mid-and late-'70s. Alicia (Norma Aleandro)
and Roberto (Hector Alterio) adopted a little girl (Analia Castro)
during this period of governmental terror in Argentina. Alicia has
always wondered about the parents of their little girl, a topic
her husband has forced her into forgetting as a condition of the
adoption -- he alone knows the full story. Thanks to censorship,
Alicia -- like others -- is not fully aware of how much killing
has gone on until her students at school start complaining that
their textbook histories were written by murderers. Add to this
a long conversation with a friend who had been in exile after she
was tortured by the government, and Alicia starts to do some serious
political and personal research on her own. The results reveal the
identity of the little girl's dead parents and reveal that Alicia's
husband has had a nasty hand in the government repression and dirty
dealings with foreign businesses. She also learns the identity of
the girl's grandmother. Her next decision will determine what to
do with this information.
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