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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.