Jose Luis, a young boy with aspirations to become a scriptwriter and director of cinema, is dazzled on having known the beautiful Sissy. To impress her, he appears as the director who looks for a not professional actress. She, that the whole life has dreamed of being 'discovered' but that it is not naive with men, pretends not to be interested. They begin a relationship in wich both are not as they wanted to be.
Abuela
A young couple find out that their parents (her father and his mother) are having a romance. A series of problems arise because the young couple can't accept that relationship.
In 1914, during World Ward I, Amada, a bourgeois wife, falls in love with her cousin Marcial, a young idealist who is fighting against the Cuban regime in power.
A bourgeois Cuban family of aristocratic origin locks itself into its mansion when the Cuban Revolution comes to power, waiting for the new regime to be overthrown. As time passes, they regress to older and older systems of policital order, from capitalism to feudalism to "primitive savagery."
Josefina
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.
История борьбы кубинского народа за свою независимость показана через судьбы трех женщин. Героиня первой новеллы вынуждена предать родных ради любви к испанскому солдату. Героиня второй новеллы вынуждена уйти из семьи ради любви. И, наконец, героиня третьей истории пытается отстоять свое право работать в колхозе.
Aunt
A young man attempts to fight the system in an entertaining account of bureaucracy amok and the tyranny of red tape. Restored by the Academy Film Archive and the Instituto Cubano del Arte e Industrias Cinematográficos in 2019.
Умирающая теща сообщает своему зятю, сеньору Ипполито Гарриго, что успела спасти драгоценности от экспроприации и спрятала их в один из двенадцати стульев гостиного гарнитура. Похоронив тещу, Ипполито бросается на поиски сокровищ. Конечно же, набожная женщина не могла не открыть тайну и своему духовнику, молодому священнику. Каноник тоже пускается на поиски сокровищ…
