Acclaimed worldwide as the “Gone with the Wind of the Cuban film industry,” Lucia is indeed Cuba's first film spectacular, an epic, three-part feature film dramatizing three separate periods in the Cuban struggle for liberation in order to show the participation of Cuban women in that fight. In 1895, Lucia (Raquel Revuelta) is embroiled in a tale of love and betrayal during Cuba's war for independence from Spain; in 1933, Lucia (Eslinda Nunez) leaves her middle-class family and becomes involved in the overthrow of the Cuban dictator Machado; and in the 1960s, Lucia (Adela Legra) is taught how to read and write during Cuba's literacy campaign and, as a newlywed, confronts her husband's macho attitudes. Each episode is filmed in a distinctive visual style which translates the spirit of each historical era, with the themes of love, death and war achieving epic proportions.