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Even during the
revolution to oust Batista, the republic of Cuba was a happy place.
When Fidel
Castro rises to power, that all changes.
Dania’s family, like so many others, is destroyed by the regime. All she can ask herself is why: Why are people disappearing? Why are
neighbors informing on each other? Why did they cancel Christmas? Why was her
father arrested?
Her anguish is
matched only by her confusion. Her mother, traumatized by the stolen
revolution, is left saying only, “Mi Cubita, Mi Cubita, how I loved you and
how I lost you.”
Lights Out, Dania’s portrait of the loved and lost Cuba, is a heartbreaking look
at the island and its people.
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