A story about a simple man from the mountains, Guaguasi, who falls in love with a beautiful chorus girl, Marina, during the Cuban Revolution. Guaguasi joins the rebels and arrives in Havana at the end of Batista's dictatorship, and, in the midst of political turmoil, is swept off his feet by the mesmerising Marina. The story celebrates the vitality and lunacy of the Revolution period with surrealism, humor and sensuality and is a compassionate metaphor about the human condition.

La India Maria becomes the municipal president due to a ballot typo.

The love of two young people is prevented by the envy and resentment of a greedy man and his evil son.

A sculptress marries out of interest in order to have the money that will allow her to give the education she desires to the young boy she has chosen to, in a certain sense, mold to her liking and thus give him her love when he becomes a man. She succeeds in part, but then the boy is reconciled with the young woman who truly loves him the sculptress ends up dying in the embrace of the sculpture that reproduced him.

Grandmother-type provides structure in the lives of orphaned/abandoned children.

On New Year's Eve, a banker and his wife invite several friends to have dinner in their apartment. Suddenly, an astrologer makes an appearance and predicts seven of the present people will die in the next weeks.