The short stories of Nobel Prize-winner Gabriel Garcia Marquez inspired this trilogy of torrid tales of passion that are steeped in the style of Marquez s magic realism. — In The Two Way Mirror, a young woman who is about... more » to wed the son of a prominent family discovers that she can see through time in her bedroom mirror. She begins a steamy romance with a 19th-century soldier who knows a lot more about love than modern men.
A lonely woman whose husband is away far too often finds herself strangely attracted to the bandit who breaks into her mansion in Saturday Night Thief.
And, in Far Away, Cuba s most famous director, Tomas Gutierrez Alea (Strawberry and Chocolate; Memories of Underdevelopment), spins a tragic tale of ill-fated love. In April 1956, the plans of two lovers to elope go awry when fate steps in. When a letter dated April 11, 1956, arrives 35 years later, the would-be bride of long ago investigates what happened that fateful night.« less