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Two Cuban friends play in a blues band in La Habana. When a Spanish music producer offers them a contract to record an album and build a career in Europe, they must decide whether to stay in their birthplace with their loved ones or to grab the chance of leaving Cuba.

A TUBA TO CUBA follows New Orleans' famed Preservation Hall Jazz Band as they retrace their musical roots from the storied city of jazz to the shores of Cuba and in turn discover a connection that runs much deeper than could have been imagined.

Canadian jazz musicians Jane Bunnett and her husband Larry Cramer travel to Cuba and connect with some local musicians.

Natalia Nikolaevna lives 400 km from Havana, in the city where the first nuclear power plant would be built in Cuba. He arrived 20 years ago from the USSR, to be reunited with her husband and work as an opera singer. In 1992, he began the great crisis, known as the Special Period. Natalia divorced, and rooted in the place gradually discovered him as the most hostile of spaces. Single mother without job opportunities, invented their own stage-a park-, their own -the spectators tourists- and their own livelihood: what gave him for his arias.

In the wake of her brother's suicide, a young Mexican woman journeys to the place he'd always dreamt of going - Cuba - where, through tortured ruminations and the guidance of a devoted stranger, she searches for answers, and must decide whether to open herself up to love and loss once again.

Seventy-two years old, La Orquesta Aragón, the crown jewel of the Cuban musical patrimony, shares its experiences and successes in this documentary.

In a small island, Flor takes care of her father, Basilio. She discovers a diary that allow her to travel to Basilio's past, and for the first time, uncover the secret of the island.

Journey into nostalgia with one couple as they revisit their youth in a land they once called home a half century ago.