Julia Yip

Through the files of Cuban cinema news program Noticieros ICAIC Latinoamericanos, the documentary shows the most relevant events of the second half of the 20th century as seen by the documentary filmmakers of the island. During three decades and under the general direction of Santiago Álvarez, these moviemakers witnessed almost everything: from the shivers of the Cold War to Bola de Nieve's piano solos; from the discovery of the killing fields in Cambodia to the Carnation Revolution in Portugal. In 2009, the original negatives of Noticieros ICAIC Latinoamericanos were declared part of the "world memory" by UNESCO.

For three days we follow the lives of several characters, each of them on a journey: from the everyday humdrum of their ordinary lives (the exhausting work shifts, being misunderstood by society, the homeless, the lonely, the yearning and the lack of any meaning for existence) to the place where they meet to recover something that the rationality of modern life cannot offer them: faith.

Dawn breaks in La Habana, and as the day advances we follow the simple lives of ten ordinary Cubans, with only sounds and images accompanied by music.