Doña Raquel
The story of a young boy, Andres Pimienta, that is sent to the United States to be kept away from the bad influences, but returns 10 years later and meets his father, Bobby, an encounter that will change his destiny.
Lala
The acquisition of a refrigerator is the excuse to expose the happiness and problems of a classic Cuban family in the 50's.
Carmela
11살의 찰리는 마약중독자인 어머니와 살고 있다. 생계를 위해 투견을 훈련시키며 사실상 가장의 역할을 하는 그는 노선생 카르멜라를 마음으로 의지한다.
그러나 선생님이 병에 걸려 몇 달 동안 교실을 비우자 새로운 교사는 찰리를 감당할 수 없어 그를 교정시설로 보내려고 하는데…
우연히 도서관에서 만난 아르투로와 세실리아는 사랑에 빠진다. 수공예품 시장에서 물건을 파는 아르투로와 외국인 대상 매춘으로 살아가는 세실리아는 서로에 대해 빠져들고, 어르투로가 미국으로 가길 원하는 가족들은 그들의 결합을 반대한다.
Roberta López
When a young man is killed in Central Park in La Habana, a series of coincidences reveals that many of the night walkers that hang around the park are related to the crime.
Juana
Iluminada lives a poor life but her luck turns around when she wins a prize from a Rina brand soap.
Regla
At a rundown bus station in rural Cuba, the line of passengers waiting just keeps getting longer. The problem is that every bus that passes by is already full. Their only hope is to wait for the station's bus to be fixed. As the disparate group settles in, relationships start forming between the passengers: Emilio, a young engineer, becomes smitten with a beautiful young woman who is en route to meet her Spanish fiancé, a blind man gets support from the others to go to the head of the line. Frustration and disorder reign when the one bus brakes down and no one can leave. Resigned to working together, the group magically transforms the station into a beautiful place where no one wants to leave.
A satire about the life of the Cuban people. Alicia, a culture instructor, is sent to a small town "Maravillas", which is itself an exaggerated, but very ingenious reflection of the real Cuba. The adventures that she has there are almost as crazy and senseless as the ones lived by the other Alice (in Wonderland), reflecting the indoctrination, coercion, absolutims, and many other everyday problems in Cuban society.
María Antonia
The plot is situated in Cuba during the early '50s, before the cuban revolution. A prostitute gets in love with a boxer to whom she devotes her life. As the boxer progresses in his career, he gets money and women. The prostitute tries everything to keep him meanwhile her tortured soul sinks deeper and deeper.
It reflects the transformation which a woman undergoes in the crisis of personal fulfillment that her husband is going through. In the middle of a complex process, marked by contradictions and failures, she will grow and express her independence as a human being. She will be another woman, determined to continue the difficult and unknown daily struggle.