Havana. Mother and daughter embark on a journey in an old Polski Fiat commonly known in Cuba as the “Polaquito”. The bond between Bertha and Margot does not prevent a family's and country's turbulence from arising. Immersed in conversation, the distance to an inevitable destination is shortened.
Raul, Camilo and Armando are three friends who, forced by the crisis, plan to kill a neighbor’s cat to eat meat in the “Periodo Especial” in Cuba (1989).
In the 1950s, Lola, Gelacia, Pepa and Cira Garlobo are four young sisters who live alone on a coffee farm in the middle of the Sierra Maestra mountains. They do not want any man in the house, but the passage through the farm of a young man from the capital who is on his way to rise up with the "rebels" will change their lives at once, although they will not escape their loneliness for that.
Concha
Reina is an old and lonely widow whose only companion is a little black dog called Rey. When the dog disappears, Reina begins to question her own existence. Suddenly, her old patrons (who had left Cuba twenty years ago) return to Miami to stay for a week and convince her to go with them. After spending some time together, Reina discovers that her usual, lonelier, life is better than anything else and decides to stay in Cuba.
Marián
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.
