Five nights a week, Maria Elena Salinas looks into a television camera and delivers the news to millions of television viewers. But when the newscast is over, she is like so many other women across the country: a wife and a mother, struggling to find balance between her personal and professional life. When Maria Elena accidentally discovers her recently deceased father had once been a Catholic priest, all she knew was suddenly thrown into question. Turning her investigative eye on herself for the first time, she begins a long, arduous journey for answers.

In I Am My Father's Daughter, Maria Elena tells the amazing story of her journey to the top amid her struggle to come to terms with family secrets. From her childhood in a poverty-stricken neighborhood of Los Angeles and her adolescent years spent working in a sweatshop, to her astonishing break into network television, along with her coverage of some of the world's major events and disasters, Salinas frames her life behind the camera in the same warm and straightforward tone that is her on-air trademark.

Cinco noches por semana, Maria Elena Salinas presenta las noticias a millones de televidentes hispanos en todo el pais. Pero cuando se apagan las camaras, es como tantas otras mujeres, una esposa y una madre que lucha por encontrar un equilibrio entre su vida personal y su vida profesional. Un dia descubrio que su adorado padre habia sido sacerdote catolico, y su vida dio un vuelco: todo lo que creia saber, y en lo que habia basado su vida, habia sido puesto en duda.

En Yo Soy la Hija de Mi Padre, Maria Elena Salinas cuenta la increible historia de su exitosa carrera y la de su lucha por descubrir y aceptar los secretos que envolvian su vida familiar. Desde su infancia en un barrio pobre de Los Angeles, a sus anos de adolescencia pasados trabajando en una fabrica de ropa en el sur de California, a su extraordinario debut en el mundo de la television y su cobertura de algunos de los sucesos y desastres mas significativos de las ultimas decadas, Maria Elena cuenta su propia historia y la de su padre, en el tono calido y directo que la caracteriza.