Haunted all her life by feelings of terror and emptiness, forty-nine-year-old urania cabral returns to her native dominican republic - and finds herself reliving the events of 1961, when the capital was still called Truj...Haunted all her life by feelings of terror and emptiness, forty-nine-year-old urania cabral returns to her native dominican republic - and finds herself reliving the events of 1961, when the capital was still called Trujillo city and one old man terrorized a nation of three million people. Rafael Trujillo, the depraved ailing dictator whom dominicans call the goat, controls his inner circle with a combination of violence and blackmail.