Amaya was kidnapped by Iris Molina and her husband, Santiago, in The Snow Girl. Iris was one of Amaya’s mother’s patients at a fertility clinic and was unable to have children of her own. After multiple unsuccessful attempts, she snatched Amaya on a whim.
Santiago wasn’t keen on taking Amaya, but he was very in love with his wife and didn’t want to hurt her more than she had already suffered in being unable to conceive her own child. Iris and Santiago kept Amaya locked up, and Iris renamed her Julia. She persistently claimed to be Amaya’s mother, gave her no access to the outside world, and kept her hidden when people came to the house. Over the years, Amaya eventually developed Stockholm syndrome and began to believe that she was Julia and that Iris was her mother.
When Santiago was killed in an accident on his way to confess, Iris only intensified Amaya’s isolation. Eventually, Miren put the pieces together and discovered what had happened. When she turned up at the property, though, Iris, fearing losing Amaya, drove away with her and tried to deliberately kill them both in a car crash. Iris was killed in the accident, but Amaya survived.
Amaya, though, still believed herself to be Julia, even after being reunited with her parents. The show never makes clear whether she regained her original identity or remembered her parents.
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