Stolen babies: from cruel reality to the big screen

Abstract

In Spain is an open secret, that were bought an sold babies. It´s a well established plot, located in time between endings of Spanish Civil War and late 1990s. 300 000 substractions has been estimated. Many of these people never knew that their parents were not their biological parents, and many still do not know. A lot of women was punished by society for being single mothers, and others simply belived what the doctor or nun told them, «they died, they came wrong, is better you don´t see them». Others go out of their way to find their relatives, mothers and children, in a country where it still turns out to be a taboo subject in all staments. Not only Spain sins of the sale of babies, it is a crime that goes all over the planet. Ireland, where the Catholic Church managed thousands of sales disguising them as adoptions.