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In this intimate autobiographical portrait, the filmmaker, who was born in Chile in 1971 but after the 1973 coup moved with her family to Cuba, returns to Havana (which she left in 1990), to look for her childhood friends, and to see what became of the 'golden years' of the Cuban Revolution in which they grew up. For them, growing up in Cuba in the '70s and '80s seemed like a paradise, where the state provided everything— playgrounds, education, healthcare, housing, work—and Camila and her friends were part of an idealistic generation of young "Pioneers," dedicated to building a new society. But Camila left Cuba shortly before the collapse of the Soviet Union—which for decades had assured the island nation’s economic survival—and by the mid-Nineties not only were the political issues evident for all to see, but the Cuban economy was in ruins....
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