Alicia Esteve, a Catalan woman, maintained for six years an elaborate hoax by pretending to be Tania Head, an alleged survivor of the September 11, 2001 attacks in New York. Her imposture was so convincing that she even became president of the attack victims' association.
The documentary "The Survivor", directed by Kike Maíllo, investigates how Alicia Esteve managed to maintain this hoax for so long, building a false identity that led her to become a reference figure for the September 11 survivors and victims.
The hoax was only discovered in 2007, when The New York Times revealed that Tania Head had never been in New York on the day of the attacks, completely unmasking her false identity.
The case of Alicia Esteve became one of the biggest hoaxes related to September 11, raising questions about the emotional and social manipulation capacity that a person can exercise when assuming a constructed identity.
