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A study in contrasts set in and around Havana that explores Cuba's 1959 revolution: a young woman's fascination with the excess of an American-owned casino leads to her downfall in the eyes of her street vendor boyfriend; a tenant farmer revolts the only way he knows how, attacking the land he works; university students gain first-hand knowledge of political upheaval; and, in the hills outside the city, the members of a poor peasant family are patriotically swept up into the burgeoning revolt.

Havana's neon-soaked casinos collide with sun-scorched sugarcane fields to capture a nation fracturing in real time. The breathtaking cinematography turns every political tremor into a visual feast of light and shadow.

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