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What makes a woman change her name, her career and cut off the ones who she loves the most? The men in her life always controlling her, that’s what. María Dominguez is a firefly latina fresh out of college. She got a job as a social worker and her heart breaks for the 2 twins who just got put on her caseload. Her father sets her up on a blind date and her relationship hits fast forward. She believes she has everything she wants until she realizes juggling a demanding spouse and having a demanding job makes for one exhausted girl. When the demanding gets out of control she reaches out to her father and brother for help. When she is left with her brother ignoring her and her father telling her she’s imagining it she takes things into her own hands. Defending yourself doesn’t make you a victim, it makes you a fighter. That’s what she tells herself until she suspects her husband did something she can’t forgive. She is sick of her husband, she is sick of her father, she is sick of her brother and she needs to make it on her own. María Dominguez dies and Jelena M.D is born.