The Official Story

A truth too frightening to ignore

A morally urgent family drama that uses a mother's discovery of her daughter's origins to interrogate complicity, state violence, and the cost of willful ignorance during Argentina's dictatorship.

Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1983. In the last and turbulent days of the military dictatorship, Alicia, a high school history teacher, begins to ask uncomfortable questions about the dark origins of Gaby, her adopted daughter.