

A bourgeois Cuban family of aristocratic origin locks itself into its mansion when the Cuban Revolution comes to power, waiting for the new regime to be overthrown. As time passes, they regress to older and older systems of political order, from capitalism to feudalism to "primitive savagery."
Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
Carlos Ruiz de la Tejera
Manuel Orozco
Yael Teruel
Finita Orozco (niña)
Ana Lillian Renteria
Finita Orozco
Francisco Puentes
Julito Orozco (niño)
Patricio Wood
Julito Orozco