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La azarosa historia de una esclava en el Santo Domingo del siglo XVIII que logrará librarse de los estigmas que la sociedad le ha impuesto para conseguir la libertad.
Para ser una esclava en el Saint-Domingue de finales del siglo XVIII, Zarité había tenido buena estrella: a los nueve años fue vendida a Toulouse Valmorain, un rico terrateniente, pero no conoció ni el agotamiento de las plantaciones de caña ni la asfixia y el sufrimiento de los...
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"Grandma's secret pink bag is ready. Pedro and Margarita know she never travels without it, and they are all getting ready for their trip to the country. Will she need to use the pink bag this time? Set in a coffee plantation, this suspenseful story shows the importance of grandmothers in the lives of their grandchildren and shows how fascinating the countryside can be."-- Publishers description.
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"A dreamlike depiction of the daily lives of Mayans living on a coffee plantation at the base of an active volcano. A mesmerizing fusion of fact and fable, this gorgeously photographed film is an immersive journey into its characters' customs and beliefs, chronicling with unblinking realism disappearing traditions and a disappearing people"--Container.
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"Even as a young girl in nineteenth-century Spain, Ana Cubillas is drawn to the exotic island of Puerto Rico by the diaries of an ancestor who traveled there with Ponce de Leon. And in twin brothers Ramon and Inocente, both in love with Ana, she finds a way to get there: she marries Ramon and convinces the brothers that their destiny is in the remote sugar plantation they have inherited on the island. But Ana's fantasies haven't prepared her for the...
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Mauro is the owner of the coffee plantation he inherited from his dead wife, Elena, with whom he had a daughter, Juliana. He has fallen in love with Florencia, the young owner of the property next to his. However, the love between Mauro and Florencia is tested when Mauro discovers that an old friend of his, Lucrecia, is pregnant with his child.
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"En la plantación de café La Portuguesa, situada en la selva de Veracruz, en México, una familia española intenta salir adelante en un ambiente hostil, continuamente asediada por bandidos, guerrilleros, políticos corruptos o por los mismos otomíes, los habitantes originales de la región, que sienten a los de la finca como invasores de sus tierras. Este relato en doce cuadros nos muestra la vida desbocada, sensual y mágica de la selva, con...
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