Strawberry and Chocolate
Strawberry and chocolate takes place in Havana Cuba with the main focus on the characters David and Diego. David is a university student who meets Diego one day while eating some ice cream and discovers that he is a radical artist. Diego is gay so this makes it very hard for him to get through in his day to day life living with the fact that everyone is watching him and he could be deported at any time. Diego’s negative attitude is Castro and the censorship as with his art exhibit that he wants to put on. Why was Diego’s Exhibit not allowed? Why was David’s friend Miguel trying so hard to get rid of Diego. What ended up changing David’s mind about Diego? The story of how David and Diego met was that they met at an ice-cream shop and at first David was reluctant to say anything but once he say that Diego had books that you could not get inside of Cuba he decided to make a deal and come home. However with Diego’s intentions to keep him at his house as long as possible he really ended up not giving him the book. After David’s first trip to Diego’s he tells his buddy Miguel and Miguel wants to know more and try and take him down. After a few trips back David starts to like Diego as a friend and they talk and teach each other about some political things. This is all going on while Diego is in the middle of trying to get his art exhibit approved. Diego and his art partner want to show it however they are told only a few things can be shown. Diego’s partner is upset but he is okay with it while Diego says it’s all or nothing. They get into a fight and the partner ends up destroying a main part of the exhibit right in front of him. Diego sends a letter to the officials saying what we don’t know but it ends up landing him in hot water and not being able to get a job anywhere else in Cuba. David and Diego and very good friends’ right now and this breaks David’s heart to hear that but he also falls in love with the women upstairs.