Silence is a tradition among the women of Rita s family, so it is no wonder that she must interpret for herself what her mother has left unsaid about the horrors of the Terezin concentration camp. But Rita faces a silence of her own: a Peronist militant in 1980s Argentina, she has been incarcerated and abused in Buenos Aires s infamous Escuela de Mecanica de la Armada (ESMA) detention center. In an imagined dialogue between mother and daughter, Rita recreates Tinkeleh s unarticulated story, interweaving it with memories of her own childhood. Breaking with the tradition of women as silent...