Anita ( Alejandra Manzo ) is a young girl with Down 's Syndrome and lives with her mother ( Norma Aleandro ) in the Once neighborhood of Balvanera in Buenos Aires . Her life is changed forever in 1994 after the AMIA bombing . Anita does n't understand what has happened ; she only remembers that her mother left to handle some paperwork , the ground began to shake and she fell off the ladder she was not supposed to climb . Frightened by the noise , she runs from the area of the bombing , totally disoriented . In her odyssey she encounters several people that provide temporary assistance as she searches for her mother
AMIA bombing
AMIA bombing
Anita (2009 film)