Desaparecida dos veces

When her son asks about the past she has never spoken of, a woman is forced to revisit the revolutionary dreams, violence, and silence that shaped her life. 

After leaving Argentina behind, a woman rebuilds her life in Brazil while carrying the memories of the hope, pain, and darkness that defined her past. Unable to free herself completely from fear or from the shadow of her abuser, she chooses silence about much of her former life as a means of self-protection. Until, at her son's request, she decides to tell the story she has never shared: a singular life that also reflects the experiences of many women who came of age amid the revolutionary ideals of 1970s Argentina. Teresa Donato becomes her confidante, and after years of conversations, interviews, and research, reconstructs in this polyphonic narrative the life of Ana María Massochi—a young woman from Corrientes who rose to become a Montoneros officer and is now a prominent restaurateur in São Paulo.