Argentina, 1976.
After the coup d'état, the military junta headed by Videla, Massera and Agosti, takes over the government. The atmosphere in the country is toxic, suspicion abounds and fear grips the heart of the people. Leftist opponents are hunted down like animals. One by one, people "disappear". The narrator, Tamara, is still a child when one night she witnesses her father being taken away by some men. They throw him into a car and take off. Tamara will never see her father again. Ana, Tamara's mother, becomes depressed and cuts herself off from the world and her daughter. Angelica, Tamara's grandmother, tries to hold the family together but how can they live under the heavy weight of silence?
With sobriety and grace, Vivian Lofiego has written an intimate first novel on the terrible wounds left by the worst years in the history of Argentina.
