Historical fiction based on a true story. 1960. The inhabitants of Cuba's Escambray Mountains respond to the atheistic and ruthless new government in power with armed rebellion. They are nurtured by the CIA as back-up for the imminent Bay of Pigs invasion. Luis Muriel, a young doctor who has left his pregnant wife in Miami, parachutes into the mountains and connects with the rebels, among them the attractive Rosa, who is engaged in more than one struggle.