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Bridget Hall is a driven & successful entrepreneur running a non-profit company named the Coffee Exchange Alliance. She’s working to establish a fair-trade business presence on the Caribbean island of Salavandra, but must overcome the corrupt Minister of Agriculture, Rafael Gallegos, who profits by marginalizing the island’s farmers and smuggling their coffee to Jamaica. Bridget tackles personal & professional challenges on Salavandra that ultimately shake her belief in the choices she’s mad ...
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Salavandra is an isolated Caribbean island. Its products-coffee, lumber and flowers-are controlled by Penkava Inc., a New York based multinational commodity corporation. After discovering that Penkava is responsible for his father's death, as well as the abysmal working conditions on the island, coffee farmer Antonio Richards ignites a revolution in the midst of a harvest season. Branding his infant insurgency The United Front for the Liberation of Salavandra (UFLS), he begins fighting the u ...
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Minister Gallegos separately confronts Bridget and Scopes as Federal troops move across the peninsula. The future of the Encarnacion farmers hangs in the balance.
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Bridget discusses her activities with the CEA executive team, but their conversation is interrupted. From Eva she learns about Salavandra’s Federal troops overrunning the coffee operation. Teresa blames Bridget for the peninsula’s discovery and breaks Eva’s friendship with Bridget.
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Two Federals detain Luis and interrogate him about Bridget’s location. Minster Gallegos arrives and discerns Bridget’s whereabouts.
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Anthony Scopes is aboard the Echo searching for the dock on Encarnacion Peninsula. He encounters Bridget, who is aboard a skiff en-route to St. Matthew, and blackmails her into working with Integrated Foods and Ishmael’s Coffees.
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Bridget processes coffee cherries with Luis and Eva (Luis’s young niece). Eva becomes attached to Bridget. Bridget offers to assist the coffee growers in finding transportation for their beans. She explains why the CEA cannot buy beans directly from the Encarnacion growers.
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Bridget learns that Luis is leading her to Encarnacion Peninsula. Minister Gallegos searches for Bridget. Luis’s sister Teresa is working with others on Encarnacion, sorting recently hulled coffee beans.
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Luis and Bridget are detained by two Federals, under the orders of Minister Gallegos, who wants Bridget deported. The couple manages to escape into the wilderness. Gallegos discusses crooked business plans with Anthony Scopes.
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Luis and Bridget hike through the coffee hills around Amadica, meeting with farmers to discuss the benefits of joining the CEA. Coffee growers talk about the challenges and risks of joining the organization. Bridget learns that Luis was part of the United Front for the Liberation of Salavandra (UFLS), a revolutionary group that existed twenty years…
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Luis Florentino, the CEA liaison, is on Salavandra’s Encarnacion Peninsula where his sister’s family cultivates high-quality Arabica coffee. He hikes overland to his home near Amadica to meet Bridget. She lands in Salavandra’s airport and encounters rough treatment at the hands of the island’s Federal soldiers. She comes face-to-face with Salavandr…
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Bridget Hall, Founder and President of CEA, is “cupping” coffees at her roasting facility in Brooklyn. She discusses her organization’s alternative trade strategies with her executive team. Later she meets Anthony Scopes of Integrated Foods—a massive food conglomerate. Scopes buys coffee for Ishmael’s Coffees, a consumer-end subsidiary of Integrate…
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Ethan McCray, a representative of The Coffee Exchange Alliance (CEA), is aboard the Cassiopeia in the Caribbean Sea. He is smuggling coffee from the island of Salavandra with Christopher Knox, the skipper. Evil plans hatch before the boat ever reaches Kingston.
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The UFLS is on the run while Phillip works with Salavandra’s government to reign in the insurgents. Antonio and Phillip meet one last time.
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Salavandra’s government cracks down on suspected UFLS members and tries to eliminate the growing social unrest. The UFLS strikes out against Penkava Incorporated.
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The United Front for the Liberation of Salavandra (UFLS) is formed. The UFLS appeals for better wages, a democratic and transparent government, and a competitive free market on Salavandra.
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Phillip appeals to Antonio to give up his struggle to improve the wages of his fellow coffee farmers. Marco and others break Antonio out of jail.
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Mary secretly meets Phillip. Coffee farmers rally to Antonio and demand a livable wage from Penkava Incorporated. Antonio is arrested for disturbing the peace.
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Federal soldiers search for Knox and his fellow loggers. Antonio and other coffee farmers ask for higher payment in exchange for their coffee beans.
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Antonio picks coffee with a hired hand and describes the extent of Penkava Incorporated’s influence over Salavandra, as well as the company’s controlled pricing of coffee and other commodities. Antonio meets Christopher Knox while working, and later shares the Link’s information with him.
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Christopher Knox and other loggers take their revenge on a rival logging camp.
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Mary, working in a greenhouse preparing flowers for export, meets Phillip. Antonio begins using a small, mobile device called a Link, which allows him unfettered access to the internet. He uses it to investigate Penkava Incorporated.
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Twenty years later Phillip travels to the island of Salavandra to check on the family’s business interests. He has an ill-fated meeting with Christopher Knox, an unemployed logger. Antonio talks with his lifelong love, Mary Gonzales.
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Antonio Richards (as a young boy) is picking coffee with his father when tragedy strikes. Antonio meets Phillip Penkava (also a young boy), who is heir to the Penkava family fortune.
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