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
A Russian Literature professor at the University of Havana is ordered to work as a translator for child victims of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster when they are sent to Cuba for medical treatment. Based on a true story.
Eduardo
When her father goes missing, 13 year old Lili uses a spiritual ritual to find him but she gets it wrong and her life turns into a nightmare.
Don Polín
Under the threat of a hurricane pending over the city, Lubrini is looking for his lover, who disappeared in the streets of Havana.
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
Young Doctor Ana lives alone because she couldn't bear to leave Cuba when her family sailed away on a raft to the US. Ernesto lives in his car with his belongings in a small case, traveling from embassy to embassy trying to fulfill his dream of leaving Cuba. These Star-crossed lovers long to be together, they are pulled apart by different dreams rooted in different countries. In his directorial debut, Alejandro Brugués offers his personal view on the insistently revisited theme in Cuban art and literature - emigration and the laceration that it implies.
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
