This is the story of an ordinary woman who died in 1997: Maria de los Reyes Castillo Bueno, Reyita.
Her story would have gone unnoticed even to her own family, had her daughter Daisy not decided to write about it. Daisy understood that she did not have to visit any library to find out about discrimination against black people in Cuba. By her side;on her rocking chair would her mother Reyita, the granddaughter of an Angolan slave brought to work on the sugar cane fields.