In the Time of the Butterflies Page #2

That's Poquita's house.

We spent five years at school together.

On the ride back home,

I had the chilling realization...

...that maybe everything I had

experienced had been for nothing.

And there I was, with all my knowledge...

...going back where I began, the farm.

Mate, stop worrying about your nails!

Jaimi's here!

Welcome home!

Jaimi, how nice to see you!

- How have you been?

- Fine, how are you?

- Good.

- Jaimito!

Patria, how are you?

Minerva, how are you?

This is Virgilio Morales,

a teacher at the university.

Hello.

And this is Patria, Minerva, Dede and Mate.

Jaimi was telling me

he had some pretty cousins...

...but this is ridiculous.

What a refined young man.

- What do you teach at the university, Lio?

- I teach law.

Minerva wants to be a lawyer.

- In what country?

- In this one, right here.

Last I heard,

women weren't allowed to study law.

Last you heard,

you hadn't heard of Minerva Mirabal.

Is that right?

So you want to be a lawyer?

You look more like a farm girl from here.

I don't want to be a lawyer.

I'm going to be a lawyer.

- What for?

- Because I believe in justice.

Justice?

Here, there is no justice.

- Only fights to be fought.

- I'm a very good fighter.

- And what battles have you won?

- Some.

Small ones,

but you have to start somewhere.

You're not gonna win any of

the big ones with two eggs in your hand.

I want you to read this.

It's by Jose Mart, the Cuban liberator.

- I know who Jose Mart is.

- So you've read him?

No.

You can let go. I've been doing

my own reading since I was 6.

Lio, let's go!

Come in, Minerva. It's beautiful.

Come in. Come on.

That's the way. It's beautiful.

Have you read this?

Don't you care what happens to any of us?

Good morning.

- Did either of you know about that?

- About what?

A demonstration

at the university last week.

Led by a bunch of young professors,

Virgilio Morales among them.

"Enemies of the state," it says here.

Mama, anyone who believes in

fair government...

...is an enemy of the state these days.

Minerva, are you trying to get us all killed?

What kind of government is this that

we're afraid to speak in our own home?

Where the walls have ears...

...and every household

has someone on the payroll.

So you watch that mouth of yours,

Minerva Mirabal.

You will not see that young man again,

not in this house, not anywhere.

Do you understand?

But, Mama, you heard Lio's ideas,

and you liked them.

I didn't know they were Communist ideas.

You're gonna get yourself killed

if you keep going up against them.

Well, they better do it quickly,

because I'm leaving this country.

If I could only make it to my ride.

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