La taquigrafista

In 1976, during Argentina’s last military dictatorship, 17 Mercedes-Benz workers were forcibly disappeared. Only a few documents from their story have survived: some photographs taken by their coworkers, a fragment of a silent film, and documents written by police spies who had infiltrated the factory with the complicity of the company’s board of directors. Among these archives is an image of three women whose first names and occupations can only be guessed at: stenographers. Mari, one of them, is the recipient of a letter that weaves a tale of her past amid the fog of a present marked by the factory’s closure, after seventy years in the Buenos Aires suburbs.