This book tells the story of a young American who travels to Costa Rica and marries a coffee planter, who is later exhiliado for criticizing the Government in a radio program. After two years of traveling through Central America and Mexico, they return to Costa Rica, a moment in which the violence that leads to arms explodes, and finally to the revolution. As a result of this, he becomes president, and governs the country with the support of a Governing Board. After achieving great reforms renounces civilian life, but she decides not to accompany him.