Mario
Ricki travels to Cuba after many years to meet his girlfriend Beatriz, but she has changed a lot; Claudia, in a desperate search for money to buy a house, tries to scam a drug dealer; and Celina, a necrophiliac prepares to spend a weekend with a corpse.. Three dark love stories that, thanks to various unforeseen events, will intertwine until they become the revelation of the plot of a film that at the end of the story illuminates the drug dealer.
Dr. Sanchez
Un profesor de literatura rusa de la Universidad de La Habana tiene la orden de trabajar como traductor para niños víctimas del desastre nuclear de Chernobyl cuando son enviados a Cuba para recibir tratamiento médico. Basado en una historia real.
Eduardo
Cuando su padre desaparece, Lili, de 13 años, usa un ritual espiritual para encontrarlo, pero se equivoca y convierte su vida en una pesadilla.
Don Polín
Bajo el acecho de un huracán que amenaza la ciudad, Lubrini, un showman habanero busca a su pareja desaparecida por las calles de La Habana. Poco a poco, la amenaza y la avaricia llevan a Lubrini a la deriva en una ciudad oscura y llena de desesperanza, entre unos personajes que encarnan en sí mismos las frustración, la apatía y el fatalismo caribeño.
The acquisition of a refrigerator is the excuse to expose the happiness and problems of a classic Cuban family in the 50's.
In the wake of his estranged father’s death, Jim Acosta a U.S. Marine goes to Havana to learn about his father’s past. He discovers that his grandfather, Mario, is still alive and the owner of a boxing gym in Havana. Jim convinces Mario to train him and a bond is created that will change them both.
When Lapatun is late for his math test, he invents a fantastic story to explain his tardiness. His extraordinary but seemingly true tale causes excitement and disorder among the students and concern to the teachers at his school. As events develop – both real and imaginary – doubts emerge about as to whether Lapatun’s story is true or not.
School principal
In a boarding school, Raidel is witness to the abuse suffered by his schoolmate Randy.
Rufo
Revolves around a love triangle that later evolves into a love square involving three Cubans and a Soviet soldier. Set in a fictitious rural village near a Soviet military base in central Cuba, their amorous adventures, or misadventures, unravel against the backdrop of the 1962 Cuban missile crisis.
Alberto
La familia de Ana abandonó Cuba en una balsa, pero ella decidió quedarse. Ernesto, en cambio, lleva años intentando irse del país con su escueto equipaje. Ambos se conocen cuando Ernesto acude al policlínico donde ella trabaja. Aunque cada uno encuentra en el otro lo que le falta, son conscientes de que los caminos que han elegido los separan de manera irremediable. A pesar de ello, no pueden evitar enamorarse profundamente, tanto que no pueden vivir el uno sin el otro.
Sgt Garrido
The architecture student Estela (Silvia Aguila) makes a suicide attempt after her plans for solving Havana's housing shortage are rejected. This brings her into contact with earthy, cynical hospital nurse Ernesto (Jorge Perugorria). Estela invites him home for dinner, and he succeeds in offending everyone present. Unable to find a quiet spot to be alone, they finally find a squatters' tenement, where their sexual frenzy causes a ceiling to collapse. They next try vertical love in a stalled elevator, trapping people in the modern building minus stairs. Fleeing responsibilities, they stage a romantic rendezvous alongside a country river, but once again they are interrupted as Cuban commissars arrive with papers and forms because the couple constructs a hut beneath a bridge. Amid the misadventures, lust turns to love
