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Soledad & Betto

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Soledad & Betto is based on real facts. Soledad is a character created by the company, but she represents the story of one of the victims of the «stolen children» which happened in Spain during Franco's dictatorship and until the '80 of the last century. Soledad is a Republican activist which suffers repression and illegal traffic of babies. Betto Douglas was a real person, she was an slave that led a revolt at St. Kitts, a Caribbean island on 1829. Soledad & Betto is the meeting of these two women in an imaginary place, beyond time and space. These women share their stories, without judging, discovering the similarities of living under repressive governments from Mediterranean to Caribbean.