In the Time of the Butterflies Page #3

I don't understand why you wanna

go around stirring things up anyway.

Why don't you just leave it alone?

Because it's not enough, Dede.

Don't you understand?

This regime is insane!

Do you know that Trujillo

has a secret campaign...

...to make our population whiter than it is?

He secretly murders

thousands of Black Haitians...

...that cross the border because...

...he claims that they're contaminating

the Dominican race.

- Okay, you heard him.

- Open up.

- What do you have in there?

- It's only clothes.

Over here.

Look at me. I'll write to you.

What are you doing?

Lio.

You can go through.

- You can pass.

- Move it.

Minerva, what are you doing?

Get back here! Get back.

Check that hood. Okay.

Minerva!

- It's okay.

- What is she doing?

It's okay, just stay quiet.

Lio.

Welcome to the revolution...

...Butterfly.

Let's go.

I don't think you can topple Trujillo

from another country's mountains.

I can't do it if I'm dead either.

But if I stay, I won't last long, Minerva.

I'm still gonna fight the regime,

but from a safe distance.

That's my ride.

- Will you write to me?

- Every day.

I gotta go.

I didn't yet understand Lio's revolution...

...only that it had

taken him away from me...

...and that without him, my life felt empty.

Patria's life took an unexpected turn,

and when her calling came...

...it was not the sort we expected.

Thank you very much.

- Anything for me, Papa?

- No, not today.

Your friends from Inmaculada

must be too busy...

...getting married and having babies

to write letters.

You should find a nice boy

from a good family and marry him.

No nice boy from a good family is gonna

want to marry a lawyer.

Which you are not,

and which you never will be.

When are you going to

come back to reality?

Bye, Minerva.

Since the last time I saw you, Minerva...

...not a day has gone by

when I don't think of you.

Although this is the fourth letter

I write to you without response...

...I can't help hoping... I'm far from you.

Lost in these mountains,

I've never felt so close to anybody.

I still haven't heard from you.

I long to kiss your lips and talk...

I'll write to you.

And I'll write to you until we're free...

How dare she go through my things!

That's to remind you

to respect your father.

- You don't have my respect anymore.

- I was trying to protect you.

I know of at least three of Virgilio's friends

who have disappeared.

You can't be safe

if you're in contact with him.

Enrique, Capt. Pea's here to see you.

Capt. Pea, to what do we owe this honor?

Trujillo has requested the presence

of your daughter Minerva...

...at the party he is giving at the palace.

You and your other lovely daughters

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