Cuba

Gloria, Yolanda's mother, exchanges their old house in Guanabacoa for a modern apartment in Vedado to keep Yolanda away from her boyfriend, but her plans soon backfire.

A young Cuban received, by inheritance of father, a car Polski, of Polish origin, popularized in Cuba, inheritance of the Cold War...

When her country is taken over by socialist revolutionaries, a wealthy woman can't bear to give up all of her wealth and possessions to the new government, so she hides her jewels in one of the 12 chairs of a dining-room set. After her death, her nephew finds out what she had done and, since the chairs had been "nationalized" and are now in the possession of a dozen different people, he sets out to track them down and get the jewels he believes rightfully belong to him.

Two Argentinian citizens, in short soujorn in today's Havana, meet two local Cubans, who happen to be mother and son. Accidentally, one of the couples reunite after many years, and their fate changes drastically. The other couple, a case of platonic love at first sight, falls deeply in love in the backdrop of Cuba's famous sea wall: El Malecón. Finally, as a nice touch to the story line, the experiences of a homosexual couple and of a young heterosexual couple serve as secondary support to the plot.

The architecture student Estela (Silvia Aguila) makes a suicide attempt after her plans for solving Havana's housing shortage are rejected. This brings her into contact with earthy, cynical hospital nurse Ernesto (Jorge Perugorria). Estela invites him home for dinner, and he succeeds in offending everyone present. Unable to find a quiet spot to be alone, they finally find a squatters' tenement, where their sexual frenzy causes a ceiling to collapse. They next try vertical love in a stalled elevator, trapping people in the modern building minus stairs. Fleeing responsibilities, they stage a romantic rendezvous alongside a country river, but once again they are interrupted as Cuban commissars arrive with papers and forms because the couple constructs a hut beneath a bridge. Amid the misadventures, lust turns to love

On December 31, 1958, a detective investigates the theft of a painting in the house of a wealthy Havana widow. The relationship between both, in the midst of research and danzón, discovers the history of the house and family. The entrance of the bearded people to Havana changes the destiny of things.

Politics silenced Cuban voices beyond its shores, but within, music is its very heartbeat. The extraordinary musical diversity of Cuba is revealed with over 40 performances by it's top artists, from street to concert, with shared stories revealing its people, culture, politics; their struggles and triumphs, vision, spirit and soul.