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La Habana, primavera de 1971: el poeta Heberto Padilla acaba de ser puesto en libertad y comparece ante el gremio de escritores cubanos, donde entona una "sentida autocrítica", se declara agente contrarrevolucionario y acusa de complicidad a muchos de sus colegas ahí presentes, entre ellos, su esposa. Un mes atrás, su arresto bajo la acusación de atentar contra la seguridad del estado cubano, movilizó a la vanguardia intelectual del mundo entero, quienes dirigieron una carta a Fidel Castro exigiendo la libertad del poeta, cuyo único pecado fue disentir a través de su obra poética. (Sherlock Films)

Spring 1971, Havana: The poet Heberto Padilla is released from jail and appears at a meeting of the Cuban writers' guild where he spouts, in his own words, a "heartfelt self-criticism." He proceeds to self-incriminate, declaring his status as a counterrevolutionary agent and accusing many of his attending colleagues, including his wife, of the same crime. A month before, his arrest under the accusation of attacking the security of the Cuban state, mobilized the intellectual vanguard of the entire world, who addressed a letter to Fidel Castro, leader of the Cuban Revolution, with whom they previously sympathized, demanding freedom for the poet, whose only sin was to dissent and criticize through his poetic work. The punctuated by interventions from Gabriel García Márquez, Julio Cortázar, Mario Vargas Llosa, Jean-Paul Sartre, Jorge Edwards, Carlos Fuentes and Fidel Castro. (FiGa Films)