Dream Sweet Dreams Of You: Based On A True Story

brbrb Just show them your heart and they will see that you are just like them./bbrbrThe early 1900's was a turbulent and unsettling time period for the Latin Community in Los Angeles. Immigrants from Mexico were pouring into California for a variety of reasons, mostly trying to escape from the brutal Mexican dictator President Dias. These scared desperate people, found themselves displaced in a small area of Los Angeles know then as Sonora Town, a transient barrio in La Placita. Dream Sweet Dreams Of You, is a Latin survival love story. The main characters, Juan and Rafella Mendoza, fall in love in front of the oldest church in Los Angeles. Rafella being the daughter of one of the largest cattle ranchers in California gives up all rights to her name in order to marry Juan. Juan a true hearted boy finds himself in a world outside of Sonora Town, giving up his family and soul for the pursuit of his music and fame. Through their course of marriage they experience several social indignities such as rape, and abandonment, allowing heartache and despair to lead them to their final emotion, forgiveness.