Havana in 2011, where the Cuban government has just begun issuing thousands of licenses letting citizens open their own businesses, a sharp break from decades of state control over the economy. The film follows people applying for these new permits, setting up small restaurants, repair shops, and other private ventures, and asks what it means for a country built on collective ownership to suddenly encourage individual enterprise. Interviews with Cubans navigating the new rules sit alongside footage of daily life on the island, from ration lines to the informal trading that has long filled gaps in the socialist system. The reforms are framed as pragmatic rather than ideological, a response to a stalled economy rather than a renunciation of socialism itself, and the film stays close to ordinary people testing how far the new freedoms actually extend. It ends without a verdict on where the changes lead, leaving Cuba's economic future as open as the licenses themselves.