El Dia de Manuela

A fictionalized tale of a young Mexican immigrant woman whose destiny began in the early 1900’s in Mexico, to the time of her death at age 97 in California. What makes Manuela special was not her journey from Mexico to California, although her story could easily fit into the annals of American immigrant history. Manuela was no ordinary woman. Like many before her, her strong belief in family and God held her life together through the Mexican Revolution, her spirited young days in Guanajuato, Mexico, her introduction to America via the railway system, and her marriage to Teo, and his ultimate death, leaving her widowed at the age of 37 with eight children.