The plot, set in Havana in the last period of Fulgencio Batista's dictatorship, follows a young girl whose aspirations to obtain a scholarship in America, against the odds, are paralleled with her reading of Ernest Hemingway's "The Old Man and the Sea".
Laura de la Luz
as Larita
Raul Paz
as Víctor
Herminia Sánchez
as Josefa
Enrique Molina
as Manolo
Micheline Calvert
as Miss Amalia
José Antonio Rodríguez
as Tomás