Everybody knows the power of music in our memories. Music is even more powerful when it's connected -as in Dame la mano- with the land where you were born. The films follows in a nice way a group of Cuban exiles living in NY and NJ. Some are musicians, others dancers, other just common exiles. All of them work hard to survive in the USA. They are attached in a ambivalent way to the country which has given them a shelter. All of the characters in the film attend each Sunday evening a place where the real Afro-Cuban rumba is performed. The place is called "Esquina Habanera" in NJ. When at the end of the film you see them all together in Esquina Habanera, you realize during the beautifully almost 30 minutes of music and dance, that those exiles are a family, united by the rumba. The award as Best Musical Film at the Tiburon International Film Festival in the USA, was very well deserved.
