Salma Hayek (´Traffic´) gives a powerful, passionate performance as an idealistic young woman who wages a daring sturggle for freedom against a murderous dictator (Academy Award nominee, Edward James Olmos) in this moving thriller that, "with brutal simplicity, dramatizes the personal toll of political tyranny" (´San Francisco Chronicle´).

For generations, General Rafael Trujillo (Olmos) has ruled the Dominican Republic with a mixture of terror and savagery… until Minerva Mirabal (Hayek) dares to oppose him. Inspired by her love for a rebel leader (Marc Anthony), Minerva and her sisters - known as Las Mariposas (The Butterflies) - endure unimagineable hardships in a battle for the very soul of a nation. But as their acts of bravery gain notoriety, Trujillo´s forces close in, determined to put an end to Minerva´s heroics.