Motherland or Death

What comes to mind when someone mentions Cuba, especially someone who has never been there? Most likely, this is a convertible with happy blond young men in colored shirts and cocktails in their hands, surrounded by dancing mulatto girls, in whose eyes the vast ocean is reflected.

Of all of the above mentioned, in reality, there is only a vast ocean that cuts off the island from the rest of the world. There is perhaps no other country on earth where the difference between its image and reality is as great as in Cuba.

For more than 50 years, the state has lived under the slogan of the victorious revolution: “Patria o Muerte” (“Motherland or Death”). For 50 years, this slogan has been a pressing dilemma for several generations of Cubans. The film tells the story of the generation that was born before the revolution and today is approaching the end of their life. When it becomes more and more clear that for them it will be possible to put an equal sign between “homeland” and “death”.