This film has many triggers to pull your emotions in every direction. There is a fine line of hope and hopelessness when the main character Alicia Ibanez is faced with a difficult and painful decision to finding the truth of her adopted daughters horrifying past.
This story takes place in a time in Argentina when the culture has started to find some sanity after the militia take over by a dictatorship during the period of 1976 through 1983. Many painful secrets are revealed to Alicia from the media through the demonstrations of mothers that have lost their children (children disappeared) through a violent and merciless war.Being a well educated teacher and strong woman, Alicia is torn between fact and emotion.
After questioning her husband Roberto (an officer of the miltary) who and where their daughter, Gabby, was adopted from Alicia realized that her husband's answers were courupt from his dirty past. Since Roberto did not give her one clear answer Alicia was faced with the horrible duty to get the official story. She was torn between hope and hoplessness that her and husband could be part of, and her daughter a product of, this nightmare that she had just learned about and opened her eyes to.
I think Gabby's future is going to be a tough road to travel. There is a sense of hope because of the strength in the women she will have in her life, Alicia and Sarah. Together, these Argentine women can help recliam Gabby's past and ensure love and protection in her future......there will be hope for Gabby. "The truth will set you free"
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This film is very powerful and emotional. I feel the pain Alecia was through during the film, trying to find the truth about Gabby and not being able to trust her husband. Alecia felt the pain and dispair of looseing someone. And,she felt as if she was left all alone as a child; as she told the story of her own grandmothers death. She did not want a grandmother out there somewhere to be in such pain because of the actions of her and her husband wanting a child of their own. I think Alecia done the right thing in the end. by Roberta Peterson
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