Cuba's musicians carry this film's argument about a country caught between socialist ideology and daily deprivation. Director X Alfonso, himself a Latin Grammy-nominated musician, builds the film around performances and interviews with artists including the hip hop group Free Hole Negro, pianist Roberto Carcasses, and poet Telmary, letting their lyrics and studio sessions speak to shortages, censorship, and the pull toward emigration. Havana appears less as postcard scenery than as a working city: crowded apartments, street corners, rehearsal spaces where these musicians describe what staying or leaving actually costs them. The soundtrack, mixing hip hop, jazz, and Afro-Cuban rhythm, functions as testimony rather than backdrop, each track tied to a specific complaint or hope about the island's future. The film does not resolve the tension between revolutionary ideals and the frustrations of a generation raised after them; it leaves that argument running through the music itself.