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The dictatorship that ruled over Argentina from 1976 to 1982 was responsible for the deaths of thousands of citizens. Official information is still lacking, and many Argentinians are still referred to as “disappeared.” Most of them were young, some of them parents with young children. One of the dramatic consequences of this dictatorship was therefore to deal a deadly blow to a whole generation and to cause a split in the families whose parents or children were disappeared. I seek to analyze how some of them are still mourning, and in particular how they are doing so through cinema. Some are searching for their identities, others trying to understand the actions of their parents. I shall focus my analysis on the work of Albertina Carri, both of whose parents were “disappeared,” since all of Carri’s films— Los Rubios, No Quiero Volver a Casa, Géminis, and La Rabia—deal with the themes of absence, lack, and fractured families.