Orfeo Vázquez, a wellplanted mulato, plays a large conga drum in a salsa band, but dreams of devoting himself to classical music. He is in love with Eury, a fullfigured woman and a devotee of Charlotte Brontë. Things become complicated when Eurys sister, a sensually aggressive redhead, insists on taking the musician to bed. These three sides of the triangle plan on leaving Cuba in a clandestine boat, facing the fury of an approaching hurricane. But Amphitrite (or Yemayá, as she is called in Havana) has other plans for them.