José Antonio Rodríguez

Depois de uma noite mal-dormida, o protagonista acorda com a campainha da porta tocando insistentemente. Pelo olho mágico, vê um desconhecido de terno e gravata, barba e cabelos longos, que lhe lembra alguém que não consegue identificar. Não sabe o porquê daquele homem estar ali nem quem ele é, mas tem uma certeza imediata: ele representa uma ameaça à sua vida. Veste-se às pressas, aproveita uma distração do visitante e escapa de sua própria casa. Com a certeza de que o desconhecido está em seu percalço através da cidade, ele passa a desconfiar de tudo e de todos numa fuga sem destino, que penetra cada vez mais fundo no seu próprio mundo.

A fugitive bursts into the home of two Catholic nuns. In an attempt to save his life, they hide him from the marauding military patrols, despite the danger they face if they are caught.

After a robbery at a bingo hall, the girlfriend of one of the robbers escaped with the help of another woman tries to recover the loot from the raid. The problem is that some cops also want to do with the loot, to finance political assassinations.

The plot, set in Havana in the last period of Fulgencio Batista's dictatorship, follows a young girl whose aspirations to obtain a scholarship in America, against the odds, are paralleled with her reading of Ernest Hemingway's "The Old Man and the Sea".

The film is based on the historical event known as the Protest of Baraguá.

The story of Cecilia is a story of the society that dominated 19th-century Cuba, a society divided between whites, blacks, and those who were mixed, the mulattos. (Since the Spanish conquistadors killed off the Indian population in Cuba not long after they took over the island, there are no mestizos, or those of mixed-Indian blood in Cuba as in other Caribbean nations.) At any rate, the drama about the life and loves of Cecilia (Daisy Granados) takes place against the backdrop of graphically violent mistreatment of slaves and the rumors of a slave rebellion after the Cubans hear of slaves turning against their captors in Haiti.

A pious plantation owner attempts to teach Christianity to 12 of his slaves by inviting them to participate in a reenactment of the Last Supper.

In 1672 Cuban revolutionaries launch an uprising against the Spanish who are occupying the country.

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.

Three stories reconstructing the start of the triumphant Cuban revolution which deposed Batista.

A group of peasants of Realengo 18 must face the greed of an American company trying to evict them from their place. One of the peasants will have to deal with the conflict of seeing her son join the rural guard who represses them.