Lo que nosotras sabiamos by Maria Ines Krimer portrays life in a cement-producing village in Argentina during the dictatorship. The narrative voicenosotras is that of wives of company managers who are reconstructing their memories and in the process seek the reasons behind the suicide of a woman in the village. There are references to ominous occurrences related to the dictatorship, and we discover that behind the appearance of normality lurks the sordid reality of a society complicit with the abuses of power. This study will consider how Lo que nosotras sabiamos fuses elements of the genero negro with a memory narrative to reproduce a discourse of social actors whothrough their prejudices, their alliance with power, and veil of secrecyserved to legitimize State terror. Recent work by memory theorists helps us understand how memory discourses function to enable individuals to come to terms with painful experiences and denounce human rights violations. However, in the case of the narrators, who repress the truth out of their interest in defending the regime, they are unable to give a unifying meaning to the past and find closure. Thus the reader becomes the ultimate detective who pieces together the clues.