In 1953 Cuba had six hundred and ninety-four cinemas and theatres. Havana alone had a hundred and thirty-four, more than New York or Paris.

In 2014 the documentary maker Carolina Sandretto decided to find and record, with a medium-format camera of the nineteen fifties, the surviving halls of that golden age. This book is the visual document of her journey through the cinemas of the island, recounting a part of the history and of the transformations of the country.