<p>At ninety-seven years old, Olga Quintero Smyth is living in an adult care facility and wrestling with dementia. She dreams of her childhood, of her family&rsquo;s luxurious life and relives the dangers caused by her family&#39;s role in 'defending' the Venezuelan dictator from a restive exile community in 1920&#39;s Trinidad.<br />
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When young Olga begins to feel stifled by the regime&rsquo;s demands, her resistance sets off a chain of events that drives her family to flee Trinidad to a working-class neighborhood in Harlem, New York.<br />
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<em>Princess Olga</em> reveals the regal wit and power that Olga demonstrated from her adolescence to her final years, following her evolution from conservative class protector, to 11-year-old, one-girl anti-regime saboteur, to American Communist sympathizer and finally to innovative educator.</p>