Amanda grows up in M*rida, Yucatan during the years of the Mexican Revolution, as the country struggles to throw off centuries of repression of indigenous people by their masters, who are of European descent. Amanda is part of the ``divine caste'', but her troubled mother ignores her from the time of her birth and Amanda grows up under the care of her Mayan Indian nurse JOVITA and Jovita's daughter CACHO, who is the same age as Amanda and her best friend.
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