1930-1961

Gives a fictionalized account of four sisters in the Dominican Republic under the dictatorship of General Trujillo.

In the early 1960s in the Dominican Republic, twelve-year-old Anita learns that her family is involved in the underground movement to end the bloody rule of the dictator, General Trujillo.

Twelve-year-old Anita de la Torre faces the problems of adolescence alone against the backdrop of political upheaval in 1960s Dominican Republic.

Amabelle, a Haitian woman who has grown up as a servant in the home of Dominicans, falls in love with Sebastien, an itinerant sugarcane cutter, and together they try to weather the storms of persecution against their people.

Gives a fictionalized account of four sisters in the Dominican Republic under the dictatorship of General Trujillo.

Gives a fictionalized account of four sisters in the Dominican Republic under the dictatorship of General Trujillo.

Anita, a typically self-absorbed twelve-year-old living in the Dominican Republic in the early 1960s, is surprised to discover her family is involved in the underground movement to end the bloody rule of the dictator, General Trujillo.