"This rare film brilliantly combines a lyrical aesthetic with insightful political and gender analysis. Employing both documentary and narrative techniques, it illuminates recent Nicaraguan political history in a highly original exploration of the presidential election of Violeta Chamorro. Alonso's poetic and beautifully photographed consideration of the symbolic white dresses Chamorro wore, reveals more about the colonial legacy, class structure, and acute cultural influence of Catholicism within this Central American nation than any of the existing volumes of academic and journalistic writing that I have examined." - Leo Spitzer, Dartmouth College