Set in the fictional East Coast suburb Pine Valley, All My Children is the decades-old, risk-taking soap that centers around Erica Kane and her long line of husbands. The show has historically been committed to social issues, focusing on such topics as AIDS, abortion, teenage alcoholism, racial bias, acquaintance rape, spousal abuse, homosexuality, Reyes syndrome, Vietnam MIAs, drug abuse, the risks of motherhood over 40, safe sex and organ donations, among others. The show made television history airing daytime televisions first same sex kiss between the characters Bianca and Lena. Mischa had two separate roles on All My Children starting in 1994 and then being recast in 1996. In 1994, Mischa appeared in flashbacks playing a young Corvina Lang (Margaret Sophie Stein) in a ten episode stint. She then reappeared in 1996 taking the place of Michelle Trachtenberg in playing the character of autistic child, Lilly Benton Montgomery.