She lives in the Dominican Republic of 2037, which is no longer the beautiful paradise it once was, because its president, Said Bona, accepted to harbor a number of biological weapons that spilled into the oceans, wreaking environmental havoc in the process.
The narrative now acquires two additional temporal strands: one in which Acilde travels back to the 2000s to become Giorgio Menicucci, a music manager who is married to Linda Goldman.
Giorgio eventually encounters Said Bona, then just a middling DJ, with the task to dissuade him from accepting to harbor several nuclear weapons.
It turns out that although Acilde is the Chosen One as the prophecy foretold, he in fact subverts his secret powers, in order to gain personal advantages.
"[1] The three different temporalities --- Acilde's 2037 self, his early 2000 Giorgio self, his Roque self, as part of the pirates during the Spanish main --- create a complex intermixing of narrative planes, with the tense changing mid-paragraph.