It rains

A man tied to a cross of wood and plants walks away on a raft.

Many people watch motionless, a ghostly noise accompanies the performance.

San Antonio De Los Baños, contemporary Cuba, black and white.

Alex and Edith are a pair of performers; they study, talk, love each other, and engage in art.

Milagros is an elderly woman, wandering around her house, but her daily activity is to read letters received many years ago from Miguel.

Frank and Alain are children, two eight-year-old friends, playing baseball, a cultural heritage of the Cuban nation, in the Centro Deportivo Comunitario H. Perez where it says: Our children are the best in the world, the healthiest and the most innocent.

Each one of them lives their daily lives, among gestures, memories, dreams.

The film unfolds by photographing this decadent reality, in which time seems to stand still, while current events are expressed through the unstoppable plague of the ever-growing exodus.

Documents, discussions, metaphors, the cyclone season has begun, and while Edith practices with puppets and goes to the disco Alex is sad.

Water comes in from the roof of Milagro's house and he has to hang letters out to dry and goes to the train station every day.

While Alain reiterates to his friend that he wants to play on the Yankees team Frank does not seem at all interested and asks his mother if he is afraid of death, and while his mother tells him no and to reassure him she promises to change everything, he reiterates that he does not want anything to change

Thefirst time I was in Cuba," the director explains, " I was eight years old. I remember, as I approached the airport checkpoints, witnessing a desperate, inseparable embrace-with deep sobs and tears-between a father and a daughter, who had evidently found a way to leave the island and would never return. It was a farewell, a parting, as poignant and unjust as it was terribly everyday and common in Cuban society, which today is going through the most severe migration crisis in its history (nearly 8 percent of the population has left the country in the last year and a half alone, and the flow is steadily increasing). "Oceans are the real continents" owes its origin to this image.

The image of the train station is recurring as the music accompanies the film's melancholy and the buildings of Havana remind us that everything has an end, while it seems that everything changes so that it stays the same. There are those who buy The Leopard, while the posters are reminiscent of Fellini's films.

For Alex, it is impossible to get rid of nostalgia and memory; Edith is gone and he hopes she will be happy and not forget him.

A black and white contemporary art installation on the concept of separation, the end, death but also nostalgia for a time gone, for a past life and a memory that returns and lives on in a different world that sees the unstoppable end of an era.

The separation and the impossibility of detachment of those who go hoping and those who remain preserving, through characters portrayed in their sensibility, in their lived experience and in their entanglement with the past and eventual future, leaving a great margin for spontaneity and improvisation.

A poignant, painful but enchanted photographic poem, a declaration of love for a land where nostalgia is the feeling that overcomes everything and melancholy the wound of the present.

The music envelops any moment between the conciliatory past, the dissonant future and the present that sounds restless, unstable and deceptive; the music penetrates like the rain that continuously falls from above following the wave rhythm of the oceans that are the real continents.