When her country is taken over by socialist revolutionaries, a wealthy woman can't bear to give up all of her wealth and possessions to the new government, so she hides all of her treasures in the 12 chairs of a dining-room set. After her death her nephew finds out what she had done and, since the chairs had been "nationalized" and are now in the possession of a dozen different people, he sets out to track them down and get the treasures he believes rightfully belong to him.

1964 film by Tomás Gutiérrez Alea

A bourgeois Cuban family of aristocratic origin locks itself into its mansion when the Cuban Revolution comes to power, waiting for the new regime to be overthrown. As time passes, they regress to older and older systems of political order, from capitalism to feudalism to "primitive savagery." Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2017.

这部影片是由《受伤的人》、《起义》、《圣克拉拉》三个短故事组成，它反映了古巴革命在各个不同事情的斗争情况。
第一个故事《受伤的人》发生在1957年的哈瓦那，表现在冲击总统府的那些日子里，一个站在革命斗争外面的知识分子的内心矛盾，第二个故事《起义》，通过一个小队游击队员，在艰苦紧张的斗争中，团结友爱，最后战胜了敌人。第三个故事《圣克拉拉》，描写在推翻反动统治集团的最后日子里，英勇的古巴人民英勇奋战，取得解放的情景。

诺贝尔文学奖得主Gabriel Garcia Marquez的爱情文学改编

历史上确有其人：18世纪有一个奴隶主为了洗涤自己的灵魂，让12个黑奴暂时忘却他们的奴隶身份，上演一出耶稣的最后晚餐，以便皈依基督教。