Luisa María Jiménez Rodríquez

The friendship between two children is threatened by their parents’ differences. Malú is from a family that was upper-class before the Revolution and remains well-to-do through remittances from relatives overseas, and her single mother (Larisa Vega Alamar) does not want her to play with Jorgito, as she thinks his background coarse and commonplace. Jorgito’s mother (Luisa María Jiménez Rodríguez),

Over several years, we follow three households and their emotions in a barrio of Havana. Magalis is a nurse, rarely happy. An older man, Ignacio, professes his love for her; her father and her brother quarrel over her brother's sexual orientation; she thinks about leaving Cuba. Santo's wife Maria is expecting their first child. Tragedy strikes and Santo leaves, drowning sorrows in alcohol and crime while his son grows up in the care of an aunt wondering where dad is. Vivian and Chino are in love, passionate, but childless. The pressures of a society that demands grandchildren strain their relationship.

이 영화는 바티스타 정권의 몰락 전후 시기의 열광적 정치 이데올로기를 통해 여러 다양한 쿠바의 모습을 스펙타클하게 보여준다. 정치적으로 지지하는 입장에서 수탈의 섬, 쿠바에서 고통스러운 삶을 이어가는 가난한 사람들을 위해 싸우는 영웅 카스트로를 묘사한다. 영화 후반부에서는 혁명에 능동적으로 참여하는 개인들의 삶을 점점 더 깊이 탐구해 나간다. 특히, 한 부패경찰 간부를 암살하려는 어느 청년학생 엔리케와 다양한 정치계급의 삶의 모습을 포착해 나간다.