简介：尽管雷纳尔多·阿伦斯年轻时第一次支持古巴革命，但由于他公开的同性恋和政治持不同政见者的观点，他成年后的大部分时间都在岛上作为不受欢迎的人度过。当他的作品在国内被禁止时，他的手稿被朋友偷运出境，并在国外获奖。直到今天，他的小说和诗歌还没有出现在古巴的图书馆、书店和学校里。20世纪70年代，他将在哈瓦那列宁公园组织秘密的文学集会，并与朋友分享他的作品。当他在1974年逃脱逮捕时，他作为逃犯在公园里呆了几个月，起草了他的回忆录《夜幕降临前》。 Fusco回到了阿雷纳斯的藏身之处，恢复了一种历史记忆的感觉，现在这是一个几乎被遗弃的地方。在帮助阿伦斯逃亡期间的一位朋友撰写的日记条目的帮助下，Fusco能够在阿伦斯藏匿、写作和捕鱼的地方找到并射击。影片中的三位古巴艺术家试图将阿雷纳斯最著名的一首关于向往祖国的诗铭记于心，而这首诗已经从那些为解放家园而奋斗的人们手中夺走了。 Though he first supported the Cuban revolution as a young man, Reinaldo Arenas spent much of his adult life on the island as a persona non grata because of his open homosexuality and politically dissident views. While his work was banned inside the country, his manuscripts were smuggled out by friends and won prizes abroad. To this day, his novels and poems are absent from Cuban libraries, bookstores, and schools. In the 1970s he would organize secret literary gatherings in Havana’s Lenin Park and share his writings with friends. When he escaped from arrest in 1974, he spent months in the park as a fugitive and drafted his memoir, “Before Night Falls”. Fusco returns to Arenas’s hiding place to restore a sense of historical memory to what is now a virtually abandoned site. With the help of journal entries written by one of the friends who helped Arenas while he was a fugitive, Fusco was able to locate and shoot in the spot where Arenas hid, wrote, and fished for food. The three Cuban artists in the film attempt to commit to memory one of Arenas’s most famous poems about yearning for a homeland that has been ripped away from those who fought to free it.
