Jose Luis, a young boy with aspirations to become a scriptwriter and director of cinema, is dazzled on having known the beautiful Sissy. To impress her, he appears as the director who looks for a not professional actress. She, that the whole life has dreamed of being 'discovered' but that it is not naive with men, pretends not to be interested. They begin a relationship in wich both are not as they wanted to be.
Abuela
A young couple find out that their parents (her father and his mother) are having a romance. A series of problems arise because the young couple can't accept that relationship.
In 1914, during World Ward I, Amada, a bourgeois wife, falls in love with her cousin Marcial, a young idealist who is fighting against the Cuban regime in power.
A bourgeois Cuban family of aristocratic origin locks itself into its mansion when the Cuban Revolution comes to power, waiting for the new regime to be overthrown. As time passes, they regress to older and older systems of policital order, from capitalism to feudalism to "primitive savagery."
Josefina
It is the story of a young man named Esteban, who was totally devoted to the cause of the Revolution against Fulgencio Batista. One day, Esteban is diagnosed with a cerebral aneurism, which causes him to take stock of his life as a revolutionary and to reconsider his relationships to his family--to his mother and brother, particularly--and his friends.
루시아는 각각 다른 시대적 상황을 배경으로 여성해방의 문제를 그린 3부작 옴니버스 영화로, 주인공들의 이름이 모두 루시아다. 1부에서 라파엘을 죽인 루시아는 끌려가던 거리에서 “쿠바는 깨어나라”고 외치는 한 미친 여자에게서 위로를 받고, 2부에서 독재자 바티스타 정권에 넘어간 암울한 극적 분위기를 마무리하는 것은 카메라를 쳐다보는 루시아의 눈이며, 3부에서 혁명군에게 글을 배운 문맹의 루시아가 처음으로 쓴 문장은 “난 떠나요. 난 노예가 아니에요”다. 이렇듯 혁명 이전과 이후 해방의 분위기 속에서도 해방된 삶을 살고 있는 건지 의심스러운 여러 루시아들의 삶을 극적으로 그려내고 있다. 토마스 구티에레즈 알레아 감독과 더불어 현대 쿠바영화의 거장인 움베르토 솔라스 감독은 각 이야기의 시대와 주제에 따라 영화의 스타일을 달리했다. 1890년대의 이야기는 멜로드라마로, 1930년대에는 복고풍의 화면으로, 마지막 1960년대의 이야기는 가벼운 코미디로 그려냈다. 2시간 40분이라는 만만치 않은 상영시간 동안 그는 파노라마처럼 시대의 변화를 담아낸다. 그것을 결국 역사의 흐름이 ‘진보’쪽에 있었음을 능숙하게 설득시킨다. 1960년대 말의 쿠바영화가 고전기 할리우드 혹은 구소련 영화와 맞먹는 형식미를 보여주는 걸작이다.
Aunt
A young man attempts to fight the system in an entertaining account of bureaucracy amok and the tyranny of red tape. Restored by the Academy Film Archive and the Instituto Cubano del Arte e Industrias Cinematográficos in 2019.
When her country is taken over by socialist revolutionaries, a wealthy woman can't bear to give up all of her wealth and possessions to the new government, so she hides all of her treasures in the 12 chairs of a dining-room set. After her death her nephew finds out what she had done and, since the chairs had been "nationalized" and are now in the possession of a dozen different people, he sets out to track them down and get the treasures he believes rightfully belong to him.
