1938 - Minerva goes to school.
- Minerva eventually meets Lena, a girl who has been taken in as a mistress by the Trujillo. She tells Minerva that she is mistreated, and that the Trujillo is corrupt and devestating. This startles Minerva, and makes her want to do something.
-Minerva starts to attend secret, anti - government meeting behind the backs of her parents.
1949- Minerva meets Lio, and starts to spend time with him
- Finds out that her father has been holding on to notes that Lio had been writing her.
- Goes to the Trujillo discovery dance, and slaps the dictator.
- Her father goes to jail
- Minerva is allowed to go to college to study law
1957 - Minerva graduates from college, but is prohibited from practicing law by the Trujillo
- Gets married to Manolo, and they begin to become revolutionaries.
-They are taken to jail in 1959, and get out on house arrest in 1960
- Refuses to accept her pardon, and is later released
- Gets killed visiting husband in jail, trying to get him out
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