Roque Cepeda
In Santa Fe de Tierra Firme, an imaginary Latin American country, the indigenous dictator Santos Banderas rules with an iron fist. A group of rebels trying to seize power by force while some liberals try a change of government legally.
Federico
Story shows the genesis of the career and the rise of Esther the most beloved actress of most popular theater in Havana at the turn of the 19th century.
A left-wing intellectual, faced with the imminence of his arrest during the coup d'état against President Joao Goulart, lives anguished moments of definition. To the collapse of his small universe is added a conjugal confrontation that unmasks him mercilessly.
Arturo
A theater director and script-writer falls for a female worker from the Havana docks, but his machismo, social and working conflicts, and the Cuban woman's condition interfere with their relationship.
Dr. Mario
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.
Pablo
젊은 부르주아 세르지오의 이야기. 혁명이 몰아 닥치고 가족들이 쿠바를 떠나는 상황에서 그는 쿠바 안에 남기로 결심한다. 혼자가 된 세르지오는 삶의 이유를 찾기 위해 자신의 어린 시절, 가족, 연인 그리고 불행들과 같은 과거를 기록하기 시작한다. 혁명은 점점 그에게 도전으로 다가선다. 모든 것은 '10월 위기'동안에 끝나버린다. 세르지오는 그가 받은 모든 교육과 가치가 산산이 부서지는 것을 발견하는데...
Tulipa, an old strip-teaser from a traveling circus, is replaced by a younger, more wild woman. She must teach the job to her successor or cling to an act that she values as true art.
A mercenary from the Bay of Pigs invasion escapes in search of protection and is taken in by a peasant woman who ignores his identity.
A doctor committed against the revolution decides to escape in a boat. A criminal friend introduced him to a modest revolutionary family to cover it up. During the events aspects of a society in transition are reflected.
