 During her exile, she published works in Mexico and California and wrote her first novel, "El séptimo sueño" (The Seventh Dream), a manuscript she decided not to publish.She returned to Argentina in 1984, after the Falklands War and the return of democratic elections to her country.In 1987, the Editorial Contrapunto, in Buenos Aires, published her second novel, "Pasos bajo el agua" ("Steps Under Water"), a fictionalized account of her experiences as a political prisoner and an exile.