A theater director and script-writer falls for a female worker from the Havana docks, but his machismo, social and working conflicts, and the Cuban woman's condition interfere with their relationship.

This clever, self-reflexive satire about the battle of the sexes in contemporary Cuba tells the story of Oscar, an educated, liberal filmmaker who, in doing research for a film about the social problem of machismo in Cuban society, finds himself falling in love with the sexy, liberated Lina, a pioneering female dockworker. What starts out as a funny and tender love story gets more and more frantic as Oscar finds he can't choose between his wife and his new lover.—Fiona Kelleghan <[email protected]>