Michael McCaughan is a writer, researcher, broadcaster and parent; he has lived and worked in Latin America for almost three decades.

The story begins in 1958 in downtown Havana, where the gringos sip rum in the casinos, Carmen Miranda is playing on the sound system and Fidel Castro is in the Sierra Maestra, plotting revolution.

In a carefully curated selection of stories and songs, writer Michael McCaughan teases apart the tangled threads of the Cuban Revolution, through anecdote, diary and song.

In a unique reflection on the Cuban Revolution, seven stories and seven songs grapples with the complex and contradictory notion of freedom and revolution, opening a window into another world and a mirror out of which we see our own reflected desires

‘One of the finest journalists writing today.’ – Naomi Klein

Funded by Creative Ireland