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This story based on real events and set in sixties’ Cuba. The revolution has been won and two boys with seemingly nothing in common become friends. Pedro Juan is athletic and strong, and Fabián is skinny, nervous and short-sighted; he plays the piano, he’s gay, and his Spanish parents immigrated to the island in the twenties.
Felipe has a cold and he can’t stop sneezing, but he doesn’t want the medicine that will make him better. The remedies his friends come up with are a bit crazy, and don’t seem to cure him at all. Poor Felipe, he just can’t get rid of his cold!
A day seemingly just like any other brings together the last living hours of four poets: Cesare Pavese, Alejandra Pizarnik, Anne Sexton and Gabriel Ferrater. Like a black box, Poem’s End records the subtle moments leading up to their deaths. Little by little, silence and the loss of words fills everything, and each poet falls apart in their own way.