Six stories in which Cuba finds itself in some of its most controversial difficulties: a writer who travels to Paris and shares the drama of exile with other colleagues; a family that lives in an undefined place of the universe where masks observe; a black woman who waits facing the sea for a sea that departs, like a modern Penelope; a writer who discovers that long-awated posterity is too tortuous a path; a baseball fanatic who invites the mythical pitcher Duque Hernández in defense of nostaliga; and a writer who searches in Madrid for an old love, lost by his stubborness and (once more) exile.