A terrible tropical hurricane is approaching Cuba. Representatives of several generations of the Godinez family are locked in an old house on the coast. They will have to patiently wait out the storm under one roof, as if in Noah’s Ark. “The revolution has taught Cubans to wait for something all the time,” says writer Abilio Estevez. But one of the heroes of his novel does not intend to wait: taking advantage of the calm before the storm, he unties the old boat from the pier and heads north, away from Cuba. This is what the author himself once did, leaving the “island of Freedom” in search of this very freedom. This book is not about how people fled from the revolution, but about dreams, happiness, freedom and how scary it is when there is no place left for them in life...