Cuban director Alea's last film before his death is in a similar vein to 1993's Strawberry And Chocolate - a subtle but still biting dig at the absurdities of day-to-day life in his native country.
Alea uses the bleak landscapes to etch a road movie brimming with grim farce and devilishly black ironic humour. Ibarra stylishly conveys the dignity of a grieving niece alongside the lustings of a downtrodden housewife. Her husband represents a repressed acceptance of their country's egalitarianism while the trucker's attitude to anything in a skirt is as decadent as the values he espouses.
Oh, and the title derives from the well known Latino song and means "girl from Guantanamo".