La historia de un dictador dominicano , Ulises Heureaux, desde el comiendo de su presidencia en 1882 hasta su asesinato en 1899.

Al género cinematográfico del drama histórico en el país le falta mucho. El mismo no escapa a las mismas debilidades que veo en otros géneros. La falta de investigación, la rigurosidad en el planteamiento artístico y los valores de producción que pudiera poseer, son los elementos que tienen más problemas.

In 1937, near the border between the Dominican Republic and Haiti, a young Haitian woman named Marie is expecting her first child with Frank, her doting Dominican husband. After her mother's burial, she is awakened in the middle of the night by distant screams. The immediate execution of all Haitians on Dominican soil has been ordered — the so-called “Cut” — and what seals a victim’s fate is whether or not they can pronounce "perejil" (parsley). Marie takes off to find Frank in the next town over, with nothing but the clothes on her back.

An unwanted pregnancy triggers the journey into adulthood for Makenya, a Dominican-Haitian teenager who lives in the Batey, a community surrounded by sugarcane fields.