SPOILS OF WAR

Spanish-Argentinian documentary that looks back on the birth of the Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo Association, whose aim was to locate the children of dissidents who were abducted during the military dictatorship and had been given up for adoption to high-ranking officials of the regime. Through the testimonies of some of these women, the horrors of the Condor Plan implemented by the oppressors to eradicate leftist movements are revealed. The soundtrack was composed by Oscar-winner Jorge Drexler.

From the first times of the military dictatorship in Argentina, a group of women, missing boys’ mothers, were meeting each other and uniting their efforts to undertake the search of their grandsons, kidnapped next to their parents or born in captivity when their pregnant mothers were arrested during the military repression. Since those days, the fight has been long and difficult, but the laborious search has given its fruits thanks to the force, the bravery and the perseverance of the Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo.