An international bestseller about the blackest period of Argentinean history.
Twenty-year-old Luz, an Argentinean, is on holiday in Madrid with her husband and newborn son. But secretly, Luz has a mission - to find her real father.
Carlos was a "desaparecidos", one of the many political activists in Argentina during its dictatorship in the seventies who "disappeared". Her mother, a political prisoner, was killed while trying to flee the country and Luz was brought up by a wealthy, politically influential couple.
There are only three people who know Luz's real identity. Her "adopted" father Eduardo, racked by guilt at this deception; her "adopted" grandfather, the powerful and corrupt General Alfonso who is determined to keep the secret buried; and Miriam, the prostitute who had befriended Luz's real mother in her final days and who returns from exile determined to tell Luz the truth.
In this gripping, emotionally charged book, Elsa Osorio has written a powerful story about a young girl's quest to find her identity and to uncover the dark secrets of her country's past.
