In the Time of the Butterflies

On November 25, 1960, the bodies of three sisters were found near the bottom of a cliff on the north coast of the Dominican Republic. The official daily 'El Caribe' reports that it had been an accident, but it does not mention that a fourth sister lives. Nor does it mention the sisters' fierce opposition to the General Trujillo's dictatorship. This is their story: how Minerva started the tragedy by refusing Trujillo; how Patria became an opponent from the church itself; how Maria Teresa joined the revolution through the love. And how they lost their wings, but not their courage. They were Las Mariposas - "The Butterflies".

In the Time of the Butterflies is a 2001 feature film directed by Mariano Barroso based on the Julia Álvarez book of the same name, covering the lives of the Mirabal sisters, Dominicanian revolutionary activists, who opposed the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo and were assassinated on November 25.

Source: Wikipedia