Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1983. In the last and turbulent days of the military dictatorship, Alicia, a high school history teacher, begins to ask uncomfortable questions about the dark origins of Gaby, her adopted daughter.
Acting
Norma Aleandro's face holds entire decades of denial collapsing.
Direction
Puenzo turns family dinners into war crimes tribunals.
Writing
Every 'happy memory' becomes evidence. The script is a prosecutor.
Director
Luis Puenzo
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released mere months after Argentina's return to democracy, the film forced public reckoning with the 'Dirty War' that official narratives still downplayed.
Norma Aleandro won Cannes Best Actress for this role—the first Argentine to do so. She reportedly refused to break character between takes, living in Alicia's dread for months.
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