影片根据费尔南德·莫莱斯所著《冷战最后一批士兵：古巴五人组的故事》(The Last Soldiers of the Cold War: The Story of the Cuban Five，暂译)改编，书中内容涉及14名古巴间谍最终被美国当局发现并起诉，其中五名古巴人因间谍罪和谋杀罪被判入狱。

1965。来自西、法边境的巴斯克地区记者Manex正在执行秘密任务。他协助遭美国政府通缉的黑豹党员逃离至古巴，他巧遇地下丝绒乐团、人权运动者麦尔坎·X死后的示威运动、灵魂乐教父James Brown与吉他之神Jimi Hendrix，还有美国CIA与以色列情报局Mossad，当然也少不了与崇尚爱与自由的嬉皮女孩共谱浪漫恋曲和使用LSD。

Three juxtaposing stories taking place in Portugal, Austria and Cuba create an intimate and poetic portrait of the daily lives and struggles of the elderly in an unstable world, seen through the eyes of their grandchildren.

American Rebels in Cuba follows the very unusual life of “Rebels” Neill and Nancy Macaulay and their involvement with the Cuban Revolution. Neill Macaulay, an American who fought with a band of Fidelistas in the final months of the Cuban Revolution and his young wife Nancy tell their incredible story of war, revolution, and attempt to settle in post-war Cuba.