Cubans get a ration book - the Libretto. The state gives products at Cuban peso prices. Every family gets a share. But increasingly the rations are not enough; you need dollars if you want anything like meat. And it's for precious dollars that Cubans are turning to the tourist trade; one of Cuba''s few remaining industries. Prostitutes sell themselves on the streets. Now even that old symbol of Cuba - the salsa - is reserved for tourists as bands only play for dollars. The decadent foreigner's playground that so sickened the revolutionaries in 1959 is back with a vengeance. In the Club Tropicana wealthy foreigners, especially Americans, kick up their heels. The revolution itself has become part of the tourist attraction with Che Guevara T-shirts and mugs gracing every store. The black economy spawned by tourism is steadily subverting Cuban socialism. An intriguing film that explores Cuba at the turn of the century.

Produced by ABC Australia