The Official Story by Roberta Peterson

This story starts in Argentina seems to be around 1970's. Alecia is a history teacher at a school for boys. She is married to Roberto and has a daughter Gabby.


Alecia is very serious about her teaching the students being young boys enjoy giving her a hard time. They tend to do their best to upset her during the class time. Alecia states' " Understanding history/ Understand the world.


Gabby the child, is a very beautiful Little girl that seem to be very well cared for and is loved very much by her mother and father. Gabby loves to sing to her mom and dad.


Anna a childhood friend of Alecia returns from being gone for seven years. Anna and Alecia have a good time talking about the past and drinking wine. Then Anna tells Alecia about her experience of being abducted and held captive. She told of being tortured, probed to tell what she new of the military and her head being placed in a bucket of water. Then she told of mothers being brought in with there child and the child being taken and never brought back. Anna also told of woman coming in pregnant and the babies taken from them. some were even aborted.


Alecia started thinking back; Gabby was adopted. Roberto brought her home said she had been given to them from a dieing woman.


On the streets hundreds of people are protesting about the military taking men and kidnapping women and children. Demanding them to be returned to there families.


Alecia becomes obsests with the idea that Gabby could be one of the missing. She starts her own investigation to try to find out about where Gabby came from and eventually finds what could be Gabby's grandmother. Alecia invites the lady to her home, when Roberto sees that Alecia has taken things to this point he becomes very defencive and angry. After the lady leaves Roberto discovers that Gabby was not home, that Alecia had sent her with her family to spend the night, Roberto became violent hurting Alecia.


Although the movie dose not really say but it is insinuated that Roberto had something to do with the missing people. I think Alecia found this out or a least felt that her did by his actions. At the end Alecia leaves Roberto.


During the movie Alecia tells of being a small child waiting in a rocking chair waiting for her grandmother. Her grandmother never showed because she was killed. But Alecia said she just kept rocking and waiting. Her feeling of being alone waiting for someone that would never return and the love for her own grandmother gave Alecia the passion and drive to try and find if Gabby had someone that loved her that much waiting for her. I don't think it was that she wanted to give up Gabby I think it was that she didn't want to be the cause of anyone hurting like she did. Alecia had felt the pain that the people in the streets looking for there loved ones felt and she could not bare the pain.