This book profiles a trio of women, through three different profilic times in Cuban history. After getting through the beginning, and getting used to the writer's style, it is like being an anonymous viewer of a documentary film. The language is great and fills the reader with great visions of a country that is caught between the cross-fires of a desire to remain proud of its heritage and nationalism and the contrast of an opppressive regime that limits the growth that its philosophies promise.