Habanero

Cuauhtémoc is a Mexican actor who has failed in every possible way Under the pressure of a family ultimatum he travels to Cuba in order to give himself a second chance There he meets Emma a feminist writer from London who is writing an essay on Cuban machismo Due to the differences in the language he thinks she is a script writer and so he decides to lead her to believe he is Cuban in order to capture her interest in a desperate attempt to rescue his pitiful career She believes him and sticks to him since her last book did not sell the way she expected She needs a new work which may rocket her back to the top where she once was Cuauhtémoc goes trough hell since he has not one gram of Cuban in him actually he is more a tourist than she is since Emma has been to Habana many times She writes an encyclopedic work about a Cuban who is really Mexican and he plays the best role of his life for a tiny little opportunity