The Suffering of the Dollar, Zoé Valdés, Liliane Hasson

This is the story of a woman, La Môme Cuca, abandoned by the love of her life who, as a reminder, left her a daughter and... a dollar. But it is also – and above all – from the pre-revolutionary years to the present day, from nonchalance to exuberance, from hope to uncertainty and then to the resistance of a people, the story of Havana – a city painted here in all its contradictions, its violence and its sensuality.

Radiating light and magic, rolling to the provocative and feverish rhythm of Cuban music, Zoé Valdés' writing allows us to hear, with insolence and nostalgia, the incurable pain of dreamers and the no less universal undertow of the last utopias.