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".

• ICAIC
• Laura de la Luz
• Raul Paz
• Herminia Sánchez
• Enrique Molina
• Micheline Calvert
• José Antonio Rodríguez