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
Em 1962, logo depois da Revolução de Fidel Castro em Cuba, Sergio fica sozinho em Havana, quando sua mulher se divorcia e sai do país, assim como seu melhor amigo. Acaba se casando com uma mulher que não desejava. Mas sua apatia e inação o condenam à solidão.
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.