A sudden earthquake shakes the hero of this film from his normal contented life into a journey through strange lands populated by friends and hideous monsters. The earthquake also changes him from stop frame puppet into a silhouette cut out character. It is a world of beautiful overlapping shapes and colours.
A Cuban immigrant tries to find her place in New York City.
Leo Brouwer, an important Cuban and world musician, opens the doors of his creative space for us to record his daily life and his important work. A questioner par excellence, he gives us his concerns about art, Cuba, and even about the film itself, all that he must share in its eight decades of existence. From his world, he shows us a reflective view on life, which is, in its infinite becoming, creation.
After being informed by an official from the US Embassy that she has won the American Visa Lottery, Lázara Carvajal decides to leave Cuba –even if that means she has to abandon her family. But her friend will make her reconsider her choice with one revealing fact.
