'Women Dreaming of a Nation' recovers the testimonies of three women who participated in the events that led to the MSI strike (the creation of the 27N movement, the social outbreak of 11J, and the civic march of 15N), which included the hunger strike of some of its members and started as a result of the protests against the arbitrary sentence imposed on Denis Solis. However, the underlying issues were the constant threats and repression, along with the economic changes imposed by the Cuban government.
Thus, Daniela Rojo, mother, artist, and self-taught poet; Katherine Bisquet, writer and poet; and Anamely Ramos, university professor of art theory and history, star in this documentary. They narrate the implications and urgencies of the civil movement of organized resistance in which they participated and after which they were sentenced to exile, either because they could not return to Cuba by explicit orders of the Cuban state in complicity with other international agents or as in the case of Daniela Rojo, self-exiled in Germany as a political refugee
In the 27N manifesto, under the subtitle "The country we dream of", the artists, intellectuals, and journalists who drafted it express their desires to inhabit a country where violence, repression, and censorship are eliminated in favor of a prosperous and equitable democracy. 'Women Dreaming of a Nation' explores these desires by subverting the sexism of the official state narrative and making Daniela, Katherine, and Anamely its protagonists, not only by giving them a central place in the frame but also by positioning them as the subjects who critically enunciate the urgency of thinking about the historical contradictions of the regime and their current consequences: from the repression against Denis Solis and Luis Manuel Otero to the impossibility of reuniting with their families, or accessing unbiased information about current events on the island.
The testimonies of each of these women serenely explain, from their very particular points of view, the abundance of images coming from various Facebook live streams made during the protests and acts of resistance by the MSI, but also by other cultural and civilian agents, which the director collected. The contrast between the clarity of the words that each of the protagonists of the documentary chooses to give an account of what happened after November 26, 2020, and the blurred images of disruption and brutality makes clear the desolation of a state of affairs in which, in the face of the collective reading of a poem (an event that took place on January 27, 2021), the authorities responded violently.