During the Dirty War in August 1976 she was detained, held for a time in Córdoba, and later in Villa Devoto, Buenos Aires.

[3] At the Campo de la Ribera [es] clandestine detention center she was subjected to harsh interrogation, including physical and mental torture.

Trlin and Cabrera worked for the construction company Vidogar, where they planned collective housing buildings for the Raúl Alfonsín government's Reactivación operation.

In 1991 she began teaching at the National University of the Littoral's Faculty of Architecture, at the invitation of Máximo Melhem, working on the theme of school design.

[7][8] In December 2014 her master's thesis was approved, titled Espacios escolares innovadores: arquitecturas para la educación en la formación de posgrado (Innovative School Spaces: Architectures for Education in Postgraduate Training).