Less than forty-eight hours after the National Electoral Council announced that Nicolás Maduro had won the July 28 elections, at least five statues of Hugo Chávez were toppled at various places in Venezuela. The narrator Héctor Torres reflects on those events and comes to the conclusion that, more than acts of protest, they signify the ultimate spiritual breaking of ties with a model that left an imprint on much of the country during the last twenty-five years.

There, at the age of 27, she spares no effort in helping young people in her community see for themselves that they can have a less bleak and barren future.