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Na Cuba pós dissolução da União Soviética, um radialista de classe média baixa consegue, por acaso, entrar em contato com um astronauta que orbita a Terra sozinho depois do governo ter abortado a missão de trazê-lo de volta para casa.
Miriam
Sonia
O jovem Chala tem um comportamento problemático. A única pessoa que ele respeita é a professora, Carmela. Enquanto a relação entre eles aumenta, os dois passam a ser perseguidos na escola.
Flavia
Ana is a telenovela actress but because of financial troubles resorts to producing a prostitution documentary under false pretences.
Mónica
With the closure of the sugar mill, the little town of Molasses is devastated, lifeless. Aldo and Monica form a young married couple that do not find a way to survive. By supporting each other, they try to save their world without loosing their faith.
Pilar
In the Cuba of these times, where everyone sells something, the young Nácar wants to sell her only property, the family vault.
Teresa
In a Havana, shaken by Fidel's retirement, a young seamstress, trapped in a sweatshop job, dreams of designing beautiful dresses. Frustrated by her lazy, though adorable Cuban boyfriend, she meets a sophisticated ex-patriot Cuban-Venezuelan who dazzles her with a glamorous future. After many deceptions and surprises, Eva has to choose between the two men she loves. Hers is an unexpected decision... a humorous metaphor of Cuba's options for the future
The small coastal town of Roquesas de Mar (village invented by the author) is shocked by the disappearance of one of her neighbors sixteen years of age. When days later found the girl's body, horribly maimed in the back of the house of one of the most famous residents of the village, all Alsina Alvaro suspect as the perpetrator.