Next Year In Havana

With the news that Luis is not married, Marisol eagerly gets ready for her day out with him the next morning. Ana gives Marisol Magda’s address and encourages Marisol to ask Luis to take her there after their day at the university. Marisol hitches a ride to the university with Caridad (Luis’s mother), and the woman’s cool, curt responses make it clear that there is no love lost between the two women.

At the university, Marisol finds herself growing even more attracted to Luis as she watches the reactions of his students to his passionate lectures on Cuban colonial history. After the lecture, Marisol asks Luis if they can visit Magda. Luis cautions Marisol. It is possible the government is observing her movements because of who she is (a journalist and daughter of a family that was pro-Batista). Digging for information on Pablo might be dangerous. Marisol goes ahead with the visit. She also agrees to break the trip in two, which will require spending the night alone with Luis. Marisol is excited by the prospect but also begins to wonder if their budding relationship is just a fling or if it can become something more.

Luis drives Marisol to the beach at Varadero, about which Marisol has heard many stories from her grandmother.