While in Havana Nat King Cole captivates his audience at the Tropicana, Marlon Brando enjoys himself without a care until the wee hours of the morning, and the mobster Meyer Lansky consolidates his casino empire, at the foot of the mountains of the Sierra Maestra farmer Plácido Navarro fights for his life. Sergeant Montesino, a henchman of Batista's troops, has him in his sights, through for reasons probably more personal than political. But Plácido is already neck high in this mess, unwittingly, dragged along by Magalys, the beautiful conspirator with whom he has fallen in love. And he has no choice but to throw his lot with the “barbudos” (bearded guerrillas) in the mountains, if he wants to live… Alberto Guerra Naranjo writes a never seen before chronic of the Cuban revolution with traces of Caribbean picaresque, the frantic pace of an adventure novel, an exuberant language, and the true story of his parents as an inspiration.