If you are ever going to watch a film that shows just how the seeds of revolution can germinate, then this is probably it. Using four separate scenarios, we follow the iniquities of a society that is crying out for change - but just not neccessarily coherently. It's that lack of cohesion that has hitherto allowed the Batista government to cling to power, but might we be about to see the joining up of those oppressed in both the countryside and the city? We start with "Pedro" (José Gallardo), a subsistence farmer walking through his fields praying for his sugar canes to grow tall and true so he…
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