From 1997 until 2011, filmmaker Sheldon Schiffer, befriended several Havaneros whose relationship with the seawall provides meaning and mental subsistence in very different ways. In 2004, he traveled to Havana, Cuba with a 16mm Arriflex camera of a nostalgic vintage. On that journey, he invited his subjects to compose a portrait of their most meaningful view on the Malecon - one that symbolizes their station in life, both personally and politically. Each of his subjects, a poet-intellectual, a musician, two prostitutes, an aging historian, and three young students with time on their hands, each connect their personal ambitions and attitudes toward Cuba as they collaborated with the filmmaker to create a cinematic 'portrait' of the seawall, and ultimately one of themselves.