Urania Cabral returns to Santo Domingo, after several years, and remembers her and her family's relationship to Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, the Dominican dictator, as well as the events surrounding his assassination.

Based on the best-selling novel by Mario Vargas Llosa, this is the story of Urania Cabral (Isabella Rossellini), a beautiful, kind, intelligent, and independent Manhattan lawyer whom, after thirty years, returns to the Dominican Republic to face her ghosts and the horrifying circumstances that altered her life forever when she was a teenager, and Rafael Leonidas Trujillo (Tomas Milian) a.k.a El Chivo (The Goat) was the iron-handed ruler of this island paradise. After Urania faces her past, nothing in her present or future will ever be the same again.—Miguel Cane ([email protected])