Based on correspondence with his sister in exile, "Letters to Eloisa" recounts the life of Cuban literary great José Lezama Lima, author of a homoerotic novel, "Paradiso," and tells the story of his silencing by the Cuban revolutionary government.

Although brothers Manuel and Valente Valenzuela both volunteered and fought in Vietnam, fifty years later they are among thousands of veterans who are being deported. Both brothers don their uniforms to bring all the veterans back home.