Tahimí Alvariño

The story of Iluminada, a woman who, having studied to be a literature teacher, ends up working as an usher in an iconic cinema in Havana.

Three couples from Cuba, Haiti and the Dominican Republic join their destinies in search of a better future, but a shark will change the course of their journey.

At a rundown bus station in rural Cuba, the line of passengers waiting just keeps getting longer. The problem is that every bus that passes by is already full. Their only hope is to wait for the station's bus to be fixed. As the disparate group settles in, relationships start forming between the passengers: Emilio, a young engineer, becomes smitten with a beautiful young woman who is en route to meet her Spanish fiancé, a blind man gets support from the others to go to the head of the line. Frustration and disorder reign when the one bus brakes down and no one can leave. Resigned to working together, the group magically transforms the station into a beautiful place where no one wants to leave.

An unclaimed fortune, grown for centuries in a British bank account, becomes a potential windfall for Bernadito Castiñeiras and the residents of the tiny village of Yaragüey, Cuba. To receive his massive inheritance check, Bernadito must prove his lineage to the Castiñeiras nuns who first populated the region. In an isolated and impoverished town where many residents share the same surname, a feud breaks out between the "Castiñeiras" and "Castiñeyras" families.

Luis, a sterility physician, is in love with a young colleague and faces the dilemma of breaking his marriage or accepting the tranquility and security of domestic life.

In Cienfuegos in the 1980s, a poetic young girl tries to make sense of her parents' volatile separation while keenly observing the reality of Cuba's dilemmas.

The unveilings and frustrations of a mother with little income, who insists on lavishly celebrating her daughter's fifteenth birthday.

Soledad is blind, and her dream is to be a famous singer. She falls in love with Vicente, and although fate seems determined to separate them, they will fight to be together.