On a Caribbean island, half a century ago, a revolution created a new frontier beyond which, little by little, the outside world became vaporous, invisible, forbidden. Now, three old men, Luis, Carmelo, and Ernesto, let their imaginations wander. All around them busses full of tourists, ambassadors of a never-never land, come and go, triggering in the old men a deep longing for vanished ideals; love, time and the places they have never seen.