In 1937, near the border between the Dominican Republic and Haiti, a young Haitian woman named Marie is expecting her first child with Frank, her doting Dominican husband. After her mother's burial, she is awakened in the middle of the night by distant screams. The immediate execution of all Haitians on Dominican soil has been ordered — the so-called “Cut” — and what seals a victim’s fate is whether or not they can pronounce "perejil" (parsley). Marie takes off to find Frank in the next town over, with nothing but the clothes on her back.

A lonely man who operates a film projector finds his only solace in a woman he sees on a film reel. After the reel is lost in an accident, he sets out to find the woman through the remotest, poorest places of the Dominican Republic.

Julián finds love and a reason for living in the last place imaginable: the Dominican Republic's Najayo Prison. His romance, with fellow prisoner Yanelly, must develop through sign language and without the knowledge of dozens of guards.

影片始于一个贫农的故事，终于一场革命，讲述了多米尼加共和国风雨飘摇的历史。1908年，一个名为利波里奥的男人在该国南部的一场飓风中消失，他的家人和村民都以为他死了。某一天，他突然以先知的身份回到家乡，声称自己肩负着上帝赋予的任务。自那之后，他通过预言和施展的一系列神迹吸引了许多信徒。于是，他带领民众隐居山间，成立了一个不受军政府和外部殖民者管辖的自治社群。他们的自由之梦能否长久？