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
Ракель, девушка из бедной семьи, мечтает выступать на сцене популярного в 1920-е годы гаванского музыкального театра «Альгамбра». Многое ей придётся испытать на пути к славе: трагическую любовь, отчаяние и одиночество, несмотря на романы с богатыми поклонниками. Неизменной страстью «красотки из «Альгамбры»» останется сцена.
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
In the aftermath of the Bay of Pigs incident, Sergio chooses to stay behind in Cuba while his wife and family escape to neighboring Miami. Alone in a brave new world, Sergio observes the constant threat of foreign invasion while chasing young women all over Havana. He finally meets Elena, a young virgin girl he seeks to mould into the image of his ex-wife, but at what cost to himself?
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.
