cuban american families

Hector Santinio, the son of Cuban immigrants, grows up in New York City in the 1950s, struggling to understand his cultural identity and to come to terms with his high-living father.

Lydia leaves Cuba for New York in the hopes of finding a husband who can give her the elegant life she has always dreamed of, and when she meets Raul, she thinks those dreams are finally coming true, but then Raul falls ill and Lydia is forced to give up her dreams and learn a lesson in humility.

Hector Santinio, the son of Cuban immigrants, grows up in New York City in the 1950s, struggling to understand his cultural identity and to come to terms with his high-living father.

Two Cuban sisters--one a master electrician in Havana, the other a successful cosmetics saleswoman in Miami--are reunited after a thirty-year separation and learn the truth behind their mother's tragic death at the hands of their father years earlier.

A Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Nilo Cruz set in 1929 Florida in a Cuban-American cigar factory, where a new lector unwittingly becomes a catalyst in the lives of his avid listeners.

Thirteen-year-old Bella tries to keep the tradition of lectors going in her Cuban-American community when workers clash with the owners of the cigar factory putting the jobs of lectors in jeopardy.