Based on the real life circumstances of a small boy born into an aristocratic Caribbean family's lifestyle for a few short years until Cuba's wholesale political changes with the advent of communism takes root. Completely changing the nation's free economy to the dictates of Russian styled communism's fixed economies. The island's populations, young, old, and in-betweens. Irrevocably responds with incongruous, hardship driven miseries akin to unusual changes in the cultural lifestyles that they knew in the past.