Reinaldo Arenas describes his poverty-stricken rural childhood, his adolescence as a rebel fighting for Castro, and his life in revolutionary Cuba as a homosexu... » 

Reinaldo Arenas describes his poverty-stricken rural childhood, his adolescence as a rebel fighting for Castro, and his life in revolutionary Cuba as a homosexual. Fleeing Cuban repression he lived in the US until he committed suicide at 47, unable to reconcile himself to life out of Cuba. «