"This film is based on historical events that took place in Cuba between 1956 and 1958." "All the characters are fictitious." "lCAlC Presents:" "UNDERCOVER" "TO THE MEMORY OF THOSE WHO died in COMBAT" "The Almendams Blues are leading the Havana Reds 3 runs to 2, second game of two sponsored by Partagás cigars and Hatuey, fine Cuban beer." "Strlke number three, and seventh strike-out for the Blues pitcher ln today's game at the Cerro stadium." "Pltcher mady, Bobby Harrison to bat, lovely day..." "Freedom for political prisoners!" "Freedom for political prisoners!" "Freedom!" "Freedom!" "Here come more people, guys!" "They say you forget from afar" "But I don't think lt's true" "Because I'll still be captive" "To the whims of your heart" "You made me see clearly" "Made my dreams come true" "Chased away my sufferings" "The first night I made love to you" "Ernesto Ardéniz?" "Are you Ernesto?" "Yes." "Carmen sent me." "Who?" "Carmen." "I'm her friend, Nereida." "Why didn't she come?" "She's in Santiago." "Okay, what do you want?" "She asked me to give you this." "And to ask how you are." "That's all?" "No, Carmen wanted to know about a comrade called Pino, if he's here and... to say there's lots happening... and it's all going well." "So what's the mystery?" "Take off your glasses." "Don't they suit me?" "You stand out a mile." "Who else here has glasses?" "No... they annoy me but... I thought... with glasses they couldn't..." "What else did you think?" "." "Carmen said..." "you'd give me a message." "No, no message." "But she insisted." "Tell her no message." "But that's why she sent me." "Just say no message." "So...?" "No, I said..." "So what do I tell her?" "Don't say anything." "I'd better go then." "Yes, that would be best." "Look, if Carmen really sent you... tell her Pino's well, and to come here and see me when she's back from Santiago." "Okay." "Listen, gentlemen, attention please, my visitor brought a message from the prisoners on the Isla de Pinos." "They're being starved and beaten and ask us to do something for them, so we must." "Set fire to the mattresses!" "Okay, hold on, hold on." "What about a press release?" "That's too weak, it won't get us anywhere." "What then?" "Hang on, we have to think, so we make an impact." "Hunger strike!" "Hunger strike!" "Hell no, I'd rather kill myself." "Strike!" "Strike!" "Yes, a strike." "Ernesto." "Yes." "Look... I can't join you." "It's just that I can't bear hunger." "That's all right." "Better to say so now." "Yes." "Hey Fatty?" "Hunger strike." "You weren't chosen." "l chose myself." "l ate with you, I'll starve with you." "You can't take it." "I've got this to last me, more than you." "Pino, what if your mom turned up now, buddy, with a dish or two, or even a bucket of soup." "Lovely soup with a nice bone." "Tip a bucket over me Darling, enough for everyone, to smear our mouths ... Do you get messy with food?" "Ah, no enjoyment without a mess." "Fatty, shut up." "Lovely and messy." "Even my forehead!" "l'm a greedy pig." "Fuck off, Fatty, give it a rest." "I fuck and eat." "At first in here I dreamt of women..." "Now I dream of tamales." "Tamales, when I unwrap them... with fried ripe bananas and frozen malt with condensed milk and a cold drink." "Shut up or I'll kill you!" "l'll shut up but I won't give you soup." "Tonight, ordinary little Migdalia Pérez has become Her Majesty Migdalia Pérez The First!" "And we'll ask her the second question." "What do you want to eat tonight?" "Meat and potatoes." "But that's no meal for a queen." "We have something much better." "You know our sponsors are eager to satisfy your every whim." "No sooner said than done, because House of Potín on Línea and Paseo in Vedado..." "Support the striking political prisoners on the Isla de Pinos and in El Príncipe." "They may die of hunger for our sakes." "Down with Batista!" "After last night..." "when you came home in a police car, you don't love us or yourself." "And you're taking us for a ride." "Know why?" "Your Dad doesn't know." "Yes he does." "You're going mad, with all those..." "They're not mad, just starving in jail." "You've come from jail?" "No, singing on TV." "Nereida, where are you going?" "My room." "Aren't you going to eat?" "No, Mom, no." "Shall we agree?" "l've no problem with you, Dad." "But I with you." "You have to understand your mother." "And she me." "Nereida... how long are you going to be a little girl?" "Until Mom respects me." "Here's what we'll do." "From now on, you discuss political stuff with me, and if you want to be a TV star, you tell me, okay?" "Now we'll have soup, Fatty." "A bucketful." "...Your country looks proudly to you" "Do not fear a glorious death" "For to die for your country is to live" "Pino!" "Pino!" "You're not so thin." "You didn't see me just after the strike." "l missed you a lot." "Me too." "l was so..." "Me too." "Yes." "My God!" "More pig-headed than ever." "Don't start." "We heard about the TV." "Your idea, no?" "It was good." "You sent a girl to see me?" "Yes, she left crying, you were so rude." "Really?" "She wants to help." "And her father's a doctor, we may need him any minute." "She's a good girl, Ernesto." "But how am I to know?" "l know." "But how do I know, when I'm in here?" "Just trust a stranger?" "No harm done." "No, but it's not the way." "I hoped she'd cheer you up!" "I nearly laughed in her face." "Crazy woman." "Crazy?" "Yes, disguised with glasses and a scarf." "She watches too many films." "She's a good kid, and I think she should stay with us." "Okay, but all in good time." "Give her easy things, not right now." "Listen..." "The stuff is at the Cotorro house." "You can collect it yourself." "What?" "You get out next week." "Wow!" "Great!" "Hang on, who told you?" "The lawyer, Ernesto." "Stop worrying." "Sure?" "Good folk about their business!" "Hello." "Ernesto, Juancho." "What's up?" "We've come for sugar." "Oh, that's bad!" "The army checks what I mill every day." "If a pack's missing, everyone goes to jail." "Come on, Juancho." "No 'come on Juancho'." "Gutiérrez Pérez, my mother loves me." "Go on, Juancho?" "Juancho, don't you think you could get us just a bit?" "Honestly boys, I can't help you." "Ay, Fatty!" "Your friend, eh?" "Come here, boys." "Let's see what we can do." "I've a surprise for you, Ernesto." "I'm marrying Pino." "That's a problem." "I don't think it's a good idea now." "Why not?" "Thought about it?" "Surely you know why we want to marry." "No, it's not that." "You shouldn't be filling out forms or giving your names in court." "It's self-indulgent." "It's complicating things more." "You know why you say that?" "Because you're not in love." "No." "What, 'no'?" "Both. I'm not in love, and that's not why I don't understand." "Pino's undercover, you're undercover, you know going to court is surrender." "You're so strict." "l know what I'm doing." "Here comes René." "At the manhole." "Open up, quick!" "Don't talk." "You have stitches in your face, so don't move." "Stay still, don't touch." "Don't worry, I'll be your nurse, all right?" "Good evening." "How's the patient?" "Very impatient... but temperature normal." "All clean." "Write." "Senorita, please give him the pot." "Did it hurt?" "Radio bothering you?" "Shall I read?" "Where were you?" "You say you're sad, I know you understand my sadness, but despite yourself you're as happy as light, a flower, a trill." "One ordinary day, with faces smiling and sad, lt will happen like a dream, you won't know how," "your soul filled with sweet anguish and a hope of dawn." "You can come naked to my feast of love." "I'll clothe you ln caresses." "It's lovely." "Is there another exit?" "Sure, full of nooks you can't see." "Who found it?" "Carmen, from the veteran lady." "Such a gentleman!" "Come." "Oh yes, there's just one problem." "Tell tale?" "It raises hell when we come and go." "Teach it:" "Batista, bastard!" "ls it the same knock?" "." "Yes." "Look who's here!" "Great to see you!" "How are you?" "Fine." "Sure?" "Come in." "Hey!" "Careful." "Fatty, don't be an idiot!" "l've made you yellow rice." "Mouth-watering!" "Sit down like a good boy." "Off to the kitchen, Fatty." "Does it hurt?" "No, I'm fine." "Done much?" "l said we were congratulated?" "Two loads of arms and one of medicine to the Sierra." "We completed the quota!" "Food!" "Yum!" "So you didn't miss me!" "We were dying to see you, Ernesto." "Most importantly, you are now..." "Move up, Pino." "You're Wilfredo Enríquez," "Mayía Rodríguez 622, medicine salesman." "Wife Alicia Martínez, housewife." "Well?" "That's you." "No, why me?" "It's Nereida." "Hey, why not someone else?" "Why?" "Nereida's clean and very pleased." "Look, he's blushing!" "Ay, Ernesto..." "He's all nervous!" "Why so nervous, Pino?" "Yes, blushing and nervous." "Anyway, did you get married in the end?" "Don't be like that Carmen, I'm only teasing." "It's not funny, Ernesto." "Wait, I can't." "Press hard, there." "At last!" "Now blindfolded." "But blindfold..." "Yes blindfolded." "Are you a grown woman?" "Blindfold!" "But no tricks." "No tricks from you either." "The hanky's in my eye!" "Take the pistol!" "Let's see..." "Wait." "Take it!" "Wait, Sergio, not yet." "Give it here." "Now, can you see?" "No, honest." "Cover her eyes, her nose, everything." "There, so she can't breathe." "Load." "Hey, are you mad?" "How often do I have to say, the radio?" "Yes, guys, keep it down." "Wait." "Go on, Nereida." "Can't see." "Not like that." "There, like that." "And now?" "Now see what next." "Yes but..." "Drop the catch, girl." "But I haven't put this back." "lt is back." "I can't." "Of course, because..." "Now I'll kill you." "Pino!" "What's going on here, guys?" "We're going to dance." "With me, I'm first." "Idiots..." "Happy days, my friend." "No, turn that off." "Come on." "You'd have to pay me to dance to that." "Fatty!" "l thought you slept with Pino." "That's what he'd like." "And you?" "I want to be properly married, but Ernesto says no." "I understand, difficult times." "You know what I thought when they sent me here?" "That if you slept with Pino, I'd have to sleep with Ernesto." "You fancy Ernesto, eh?" "I don't know." "I don't think he's interested." "l think he is." "You think so?" "I know." "Ernesto is very stern, and very stubborn, and very shy." "He won't say anything to you." "So what do I do?" "You'll see." "We women always know what to do." "Move over, there's work tomorrow." "Don't be difficult, Carmen." "Stop getting at me, Pino." "It's not some whim of mine." "You can't go there like that, you'll call attention to yourself." "Tell him, Sergio." "No, keep me out of it." "Ernesto's too meddlesome, you not enough." "It won't go by tomorrow." "Pipe down!" "What's up?" "What happened?" "Speak of the Devil." "Look at her, can she go like that?" "Does she still have a fever?" "Yes, and asthma." "Don't be stubborn." "You're too ill to go." "If I don't, who will?" "Nereida could go." "Good morning, come in." "Señor Enríquez." "Pleased to meet you." "Take a seat." "Sorry to keep you. I had a call to New York that couldn't wait." "Well?" "Señorita... I explained to you on the phone, Señor Sánchez." "We want to hit the market with a new product." "We don't want to be like the rest, but create an air of expectation, of suspense." "It could go out in the press, the radio, above all on television." "The slogan would be "03T"." ""03T"?" "Yes." "Sounds good." "Yes, "03T" is a product..." "Well, that's the slogan." "The product is CEDIP." "It's to calm the nerves." "There's a market for that, in these anxious times." "Carla, the ENRILAB model please." "Very anxious times." "Do continue." "Yes." "This gives you a better idea." "See?" "What can it be, "03T"?" "And "03T"." "You see?" "It's: zero tension, zero torment, zero tragedy." "Very good." "When would we start?" "As soon as possible." "It will cost you." "How much?" "In round numbers, I'd say 15 000 pesos." "Here's a third of it in cash now." "Alicia." "Great, Señor Enríquez, I'll mount you a fine campaign." "In two weeks, all Cuba will be asking:" "what could it be, "03T"?" ""03T"?" "ZERO THEATER, ZERO TRADE," "ZERO TYRANNY DOWN WITH BATISTA!" "Fantastic!" "See?" "That's what I want." "How many, Ernesto?" "30 000, 50 000..." "What?" "I have to flood Havana in a week." "Flood it?" "You'll drown it!" "So, you'll do it?" "Leave it to me!" "Here, bastard!" "Stand there!" "Asshole!" "Shit!" "We got you, bastard!" "Let me go, you prick!" "No!" "Pino!" "Pino!" "Carmen!" "Let her go, you bastard!" "Let her go, for fuck's sake!" "Carmen!" "Let me go, damn it!" "Hurry!" "What did you think of it in there?" "Not very nice, is it?" "You already knew it, but not him," "or the señorita." "First off, let's get things straight." "I was young once, a crazy student." "But we live and learn." "Secondly... it's good to talk." "Let's talk." "It would be a shame for you to fall into the hands of those butchers." "Let's talk." "Help me." "I want to know one thing." "Where is Ernesto Ardéniz?" "I dread to think what they're doing to them." "I was tortured once." "They did whatever they wanted." "They nearly left me deaf." "Torture is the only thing I fear." "Prison doesn't bother me, but I'm afraid of torture." "Are you hungry?" "No." "Don't tell fibs, you're as famished as I am." "Let's go." "Where to?" "Where can we go?" "You can go home." "It's not a game anymore." "Miralles is after me." "I've nothing to eat, nowhere to go." "I can't keep you on this bench, can I?" "I'll stay." "Let me stay with you." "Cheer up." "They'll be okay." "Don't worry." "Well, there's... something else I wanted to talk to you about." "Forgive me, doctor," "I know this isn't the best place, but it's not a good idea for them to know where I live or me to visit you." "I..." "would like to ask your daughter's hand." "Her hand?" "Yes." "But you already have all of her." "I assure you my intentions towards her are honorable." "Let me be clear." "For now..." "I can't marry or give my name, you know." "I understand if you don't approve." "I like you, Ernesto." "My approval doesn't matter much, since she's even more obstinate than I." "I won't come between you." "I'd just ask you one thing, only this:" "look after her and bring her back alive." "You'm not here my love beside me" "My soul ls very lonesome" "And lf I cannot see you Why did God make me love you" "To make me suffer more" "What can it be, "03T"?" "My God!" "Fatty!" "Ernesto!" "Ernesto!" "Fatty!" "Listen!" "It's on the radio!" "Hurry, it's on!" "That new, special something in your life!" "You could hear it as clearly as a Palmolive advert!" "Ay, Ernesto!" "So it was good?" "So you know nothing about this." "Nor you." "Nor you." "Okay, I gave you a chance." "Is it him?" "No." "Her?" "No." "This one?" "Thanks, you can go." "Excuse me, I'm the Judicial Inspector, investigating the case." "Your brother?" "My fiancé." "Pardon?" "My fiancé." "Do you know who killed him?" "Yes, it was Captain Miralles." "Virtually before my eyes, at the 5th Police Station." "Serious." "So serious you won't investigate, and you won't publish anything." "No, and that's final." "I saw him tortured." "Yes, and that's why." "Some talk." "Or why did they let him go?" "They let me go!" "Don't you trust me now?" "Carmen, it's different, you're a woman!" "They freed you as bait." "You saw how they followed you!" "It's precaution, not mistrust." "Or yes, I am mistrustful, I trust you but not Sergio." "They don't free you now, they kill you." "We have to isolate Sergio." "I don't agree." "I didn't ask you." "Isolate Sergio and you go to an Embassy." "No way, I'd betray Pino." "Be reasonable." "Your cover's blown." "After prison, accusing Miralles, you must seek asylum." "Don't give me any more orders, Ernesto!" "What?" "On your orders, to protect us," "I didn't marry Pino, and he wanted to." "Go up to the Sierra?" "Depends on Ernesto." "No, I'm not giving you more orders." "Ernesto, don't be a jerk." "Will you forgive me, little sister?" "Do you want to go?" "Take care!" "And look after Ernesto." "Ernesto loves you." "We'll miss you." "Use U.S. batteries." "The time from Clock Radio.:" "Official time, one minute past twelve." "We continue our bulletin." "Casualties on both sides when rebel groups attacked two armored army vehicles with granades on the Zarzal road, near Estrada Palma barracks in Oriente." "Today is March 26, 1958." "Saints of the day.:" "Braullo, Felix, Castor, Eugenia." "Cold?" "Immediate mllef with Mentholatum." "Children's long sleeve shirtis, stairting at 95 cents." ""Twins', comer of Agulla and Estrella." "We continue our bulletin." "Guantanamo, thousands at the funeral... I'm very tired." "It took you ages." "Anything happen?" "No." "And Carmen?" "She was happy to go." "Where's Fatty?" "He went to see his daughter." "I'll have a shower." "What are you doing?" "Writing to your other girl?" "No, to my mom." "What are you doing here?" "I don't know, I'm scared." "Of what?" "Everything." "Do you remember the poem?" "Yes." "I'm naked now." "Good day." "Good day." "Are you Ernesto Ardeniz's mother?" "Something happened to him?" "No he's fine." "Sorry love," "l'm always so scared!" "Come in." "Don't worry." "You must realize it was irresponsible." "Why?" "I only wanted to meet her." "She's lonely, needs to hear about you." "Do you think this is a time for visits?" "Because I don't." "Why haven't I been home for a year?" "I want to see her too, she's my mother." "But I know that house is watched, and they may have followed you here." "You never learn." "You all think this is a game and I'm the killjoy." "I'm annoyed it's you who's done something so stupid, because I told you from the start, you have to obey me with your eyes shut." "And now you're doing everything wrong!" "I told you to drop it in the mailbox." "Why did you have to take it yourself?" "You wanted to be nice, to meet her." "Thanks, but I didn't tell you to." "It was a whim and now we're in trouble." "Where do I go?" "Where do I put you and Fatty?" "You won't get to me by turning on the tears." "Have you packed?" "No." "What are you waiting for?" "Your orders." "Tell me, what's the matter?" "I think..." "I'm pregnant." "What?" "I'm pregnant." "I've been stupid." "I couldn't even choose the right place to tell you." "And..." "I know it's not the right moment." "We can't, can we?" "Fine, we'll have it." "But on one condition:" "You go back to your dad." "Not like that." "You go to your parents." "Quick, tell me the time." "Three twenty." "Precisely?" "Seventeen." "I'll stay with you." "Don't worry, everything will be all right." "Everything will turn out fine." "Your dad's coming." "You'll be a boy." "Your mom knows." "Nothing will happen to Daddy... because Mommy brings him luck." "He's coming." "He's... very stubborn, but very good." "He loves you, just like I do." "I love you lots." "What a fright!" "Hi, Honey!" "W-ere you talking to yourself?" "No." "To the baby." "But he can't hear you." "Yes he can, and he understands." "Talk to him a bit?" "Good God!" "What can I say?" "Whatever comes into your head." "Say something." "Kiddy..." "Daddy brought you lots of dynamite." "Idiot!" "It's us that are idiots, my love." "When are you going home?" "When I've done the gun shop with you." "Yes, I'm coming too." "I promise we'll talk next month." "Okay... but no later than the first." "It might be your lucky day!" "Last ticket!" "Buy your bit of luck!" "Don't move!" "Leave that!" "Get out!" "Get him out!" "Hurry, Fatty!" "Come on, hurry!" "You can't stop here." "Watch out guys!" "The driver's just making a delivery." "A delivery?" "Yes." "Where?" "There, at the florists." "Traffic." "Five minutes." "Three." "Okay?" "Hurry, we have three minutes!" "Almost there." "Hey, officer!" "Faster!" "Wait!" "Stop!" "Over here, Pepe!" "Oh God!" "Fuck!" "Go!" "Now!" "What happened?" "Police caught us." "Hurry." "Ernesto, the others?" "Don't know." "But Raul..." "Here they come!" "Quick, he's wounded!" "Open the door!" "Open up!" "And Pepe?" "They killed him." "Quick!" "Good evening." "Where are the others?" "What are you talking about?" "You know very well, doctor, and so does your daughter Nerieda." "Who gave you permission to come in here?" "This man is under my care, in my clinic." "Your clinic." "I'll take you to court, report you to the Medical Council." "Accuse all you want, but you're coming with me." "Put them in there." "Yes." "Where do we go now?" "No idea." "What about the Vibora flat, remember?" "Yes!" "But hang on, is it safe?" "I think so." "The only ones who know about it are Raúl, Pino and me." "Sure it's only Raúl, Pino and you?" "Sure." "Okay, you go with him." "And you?" "Lots to do." "Ask the Medical Council to help your dad and prepare to go to the Embassy." "I'm staying with you." "You'll do as I say." "Ernesto's taking longer than ever." "Are you scared?" "No." "I am." "I have a presentiment that..." "We'll be okay if Ernesto gets here safe and sound." "Ernesto's not God." "I know, Fatty." "I know what I mean." "Did you hear?" "lt's Ernesto!" "Yes, it's Ernesto!" "All sorted." "Tomorrow morning you ask for asylum in the Mexican Embassy, okay?" "Fatty and I head for the Sierra." "Great!" "We go tomorrow night." "You cleaned the weapons?" "Yes." "It's totally bare!" "Didn't you buy anything to eat?" "Don't rub it in!" "Are you hungry?" "Look..." "I'll get plates." "Give it here!" "Patience!" "Not with your hands, Fatty, you pig!" "Come on, Ernesto." "Coming." "Which do you want?" "Any of them." "Have one." "Nereida!" "Get back!" "Turn out the light!" "Emesto Ardéniz, the building is surrounded." "I have more than 100 men." "Do you hear me?" "You don't have a chance." "Can you hear me, Ernesto Ardéniz?" "I'll give you one chance." "Surrender and nothing will happen." "Are you listening?" "Ardéniz, I have a friend of yours here who wants to speak to you." "Ernesto." "Surrender." "lt's Sergio." "There's no other way." "They keep their word." "They did with me." "Bloody hell, I knew it!" "Ernesto, surrender, there's no way out." "He knew the house, didn't he?" "Yes." "Why didn't you tell me?" "Why did you trust him, and not me?" "Why didn't you tell me?" "Emesto Ardiéiniz" "You have three minutes." "Now we only have three minutes." "Fatty." "Nereida." "Give me the dynamite, quick!" "Sergio!" "I'm going to the other roof." "Don't go out, Fatty!" "No!" "Fatty!" "Ernesto, for God's sake!" "You lost the baby?" "Oh God!" "No!" "And Fatty!" "No." "Why?" "No!" "No!" "It's all right, it's all right!" "Be quiet!" "Fucking hell!" "Ernesto!" "Emesto Ardéniz." "Can you hear me?" "Give yourself up." "It's your last chance." "I love you very much." "I love you very, very, very much." "I have to give you up." "I have to give you up, fuck it!" "No, no, for Christ's sake, not that, Ernesto!" "Miralles!" "I don't trust your word." "I'm handing over Nerieda, alive." "Alive!" "You're a piece of shit, Miralles." "You get me because I have to save her." "If not, you'd never catch me." "I'm handing her in alive." "I'm giving you Nereida alive." "She's alive!" "Look what you've done to her!" "Look at her!" "Look!" "I'm giving her to you alive!" "Alive!" "No lies afterwards." "She's alive!" "Alive, you bastard!" "Grab him!" "Take her over there!" "Let me go!" "Let me go!" "Nereida!" "No!"