Daughters of the Air

When Plutas father, a university professor, disappears amid the turmoil of Argentinas Dirty War, her familys idyllic life crumbles. Unsure where hes been taken or whether hes even alive, Pluta and her mother struggle to cope with the disappearanceand to voice their fears and pain to one another. Exiled to a boarding school in New York and churning with unresolved grief, Pluta runs away to Brooklyn in 1980. Her harrowing and surreal experiences on the dangerous streets soon threaten to destroy her completelybut may also at last break through the suffocating silence that has held her family captive.