In Uruguay there are still a lot of missing people who vanished during the dictatorship between 1973-84 and were never found again. Maria Emilia Islas is one of them and still missing. She disappeared at 22 years, with her husband and her child of 18 month. Maria Esther Gatti - her mother and school teacher spent searching 16 years to find her granddaughter finding her finally living with a family of an Argentinian military officer Buenos Aires. After learning the truth about her origin, the 18-year old granddaughter chose to continue living with the parents who adopted her by force, when she was a baby.