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How long have you been driving this taxi for?

How long?

It's been...

It's been 15 years since I started doing this job.

Wow, that's a long time.

This job gave me the opportunity to learn about

the culture of different countries, since I drive passengers

from all over the world.

It's a bit like...

It's as if I traveled the world myself.

Because...

They tell me about life in their countries.

And in general,

about culture, traditions, and anything else that has to do with their countries.

So this is an interesting job

because you always learn something

and interact with people.

Plus, they're usually educated people.

For this reason, this job is...

an enriching type of job.

- And what brings you here in Cuba? - You don't know?

To make cinema.

Cinema is very important now.

The 21st century...

is about engagement, Gustavo.

We need to push everything towards perfecting humanity.

Helping humanity to get better.

Humanity is now in an abyss of...

you know, maladies, turmoils.

There are flashpoints everywhere, wars, terrorism

so many despots and dictators, and populist leaders are now...

heading a lot of countries, and it's terrible for humanity.

So, we should move, in our own small ways to fight these things.

And cinema is part of that,

of this cultural movement to fight all these problems of the world right now.

It's more at the forefront of these cultural movements.

Not art for art's sake, fuck art for art's sake.

It's amazing how...

despite the language barrier...

because you've been with me...

we moved around this town and the University and we've been going to Havana.

We've learned to understand each other despite the language barrier.

I cannot speak Spanish. I have an understanding, little, of the language.

But, I can understand you well, it's more how you...

your demeanor, when you speak, the tone and I know, I can understand.

Yeah, I'm familiar with you and you are familiar with me...

That's the reason why we understand each other.

So sometimes familiarity destroys these borders about language.

The Tower of Babel is destroyed by familiarity and relationships.

Like the two of us, we've been together,

But you know... there's a lot of...

so called fractures in the way we see life

and in our relationships with other people.

Often times you think...

you're deeply in love with a person

Then you wake up one day and she's gone.

Yes.

That happened to me as well.

For example in my case,

I was recently in a relationship with a woman, and it was going well,

but she...

she had to leave because her son and grandson lived abroad.

And so...

our relationship was over.

And you get hurt, emotionally.

Because you start

getting attached to a person, and all of a sudden...

everything falls apart.

This is what's happening to many Cuban families and couples

that break up for this reason.

Although things go well, the relationship goes well...

the couple is forced to break up because one of them

has to...

leave the country for multiple reasons.

That happened to me as well.

I will tell you the story.

I was able to bring my family in America.

After working with a Filipino newspaper, I'm a journalist, then.

A Filipino newspaper in New York, they invited me to stay

so I was able to get my family.

But, once I was able to get my family to New York, I started doing cinema again.

I kept going back to the Philippines to make cinema.

And one day, when I went back to New York...

We were having breakfast, me and my wife.

And after serving me good, good...

coffee, a donut and an egg,

she pulled an envelope and put it in front of me.

And, she gave me a ball pen,

and she said: "Sign this."

I thought it was just another contract, or some bills or what...

When I read it, it is divorce papers.

She said: "Sign it. You love your cinema so much, then go do cinema."

We have divorced.

It was that simple.

The separation was simple.

No bloody fights, no shouting or screaming.

You know, we were just having good coffee in the morning.

Very fresh, in a way.

What's the name of your lost love?

Your ex-girlfriend, what's her name?

Elvis, like...

like Elvis Presley.

Elvis is her name?

Wow... Elvis.

What a name for a woman, Elvis.

You were together for how long?

How long were you together?

- Two years. - Two years?

And she left? She left already?

Where did she go? To the US?

Lehigh.

Lehigh, Florida

Ah, Florida, wow

Do you still communicate? Writing?

- No more, by cellphone? - No, nothing

Stopped.

So do you still love her?

Yes, but she doesn't...

she doesn't love me.

She has no time for me now, because...

she only cares about things, what she now wants are things

material things, cars...

a house with swimming pool,

branded clothes...

now she has no time to think about me.

That's sad, that's very sad, Gustavo.

I only have...

But it's good that you can laugh about it, no?

- I only have old and ugly stuff. - I like that you can laugh about it.

But it must have been very hard when she left.

Yes.

It was hard.

But I'm already...

I'm already recovering.

Did you cry? You cried?

No.

- No I don't cry. - You're a macho.

You know, it's good to cry, to release your emotions.

I say, as Chaplin said...

I say "I like walking under the rain so nobody sees me crying."

Wow, that's fantastic.

The rain.

So, Gustavo...

We've known each other...

I've gained your trust, and you trust me.

Right?

- Do you trust me? - Yes, sure.

- I trust you. - And I trust you.

Gustavo, I trust you a lot.

You're holding my life here. We travel and you're holding, my life.

So, the foundation of this trust is this car.

This rotten old car, that is about to dissipate,

to disintegrate, but it's still intact.

This is the foundation of our friendship.

It starts from this car.

I have to tell you something, Gustavo.

This is the truth.

I'm on a mission.

This mission is a commitment to my people, to the Filipino people.

I'm looking for a man, here.

His name is Juan Mijares Cruz.

I need your help.

All right, you want me to help you find Juan Mijares Cruz.

Yeah, Gustavo, I want you to help me find General Juan Mijares Cruz.

And I will tell you why.

This man is a former general

of the dictator Ferdinand Marcos.

Ferdinand Marcos...

imposed martial law in the Philippines in 1972.

And...

He put...

the Philippines under martial law for 17, 18 years.

It was a brutal period in our history, the most brutal period in our history.

Thousands of people disappeared, thousands of activists were tortured and killed,

you know, murdered.

Not just that.

According to research...

he plundered the country of 20, 30 billion dollars.

30 billions.

And the money,

they put it in Swiss banks, in Bahamas and Singapore banks.

In Swiss banks, in the Bahamas and Singapore?

Yes, yes.

And General Juan Mijares is one of them, one of the generals of Marcos.

He's responsible for the tortures,

you know, the murders.

The murder of thousands of Filipino youth.

According to reports, according to research, he's living here,

around the vicinity of San Antonio.

And he's hiding under a Cuban identity.

They said he has some business here now in some plantation.

Maybe a banana plantation or a cassava plantation.

He's living around here.

We need to find him, Gustavo, help me.

Ok, I will help you look for Juan Mijares Cruz and find him.

I will give you a photo of him.

A photograph. A portrait.

A photograph of him,

of when he left the Philippines and maybe what he looks like now.

He is mestizo, a mestizo.

So he can really look like a Cuban or a Spanish.

His blood is a mix between Malay and Spanish.

A mestizo, a Creole.

One way that I'm doing here, to flush him out,

of this, uh, new "persona"...

is to create a sort of documentary about him.

- So you will make a film to expose him. - Yeah.

Somebody, like a filmmaker is looking for a Filipino here.

Supposedly a general, also of Marcos.

And then this kind of documentary that this filmmaker is doing is very overt.

It's open.

Maybe, what I'm trying to do this to call the attention of this guy.

For him to come out.

I don't know if it's gonna happen.

But I'm going to stay here until I see him.

And when I see him, Gustavo...

Do you know what's gonna happen? You know what will I do?

Look at me Gustavo. Do you know what I will do?

- I will shoot him in the head. - OK.

Smash his head, out.

And I'll eat his brain.

I'll eat his brain.

That is a ritual that I will do.

For my Filipino people, for my people, I will eat his brain.

You will be a hero of the Filipino people if you help me,

find this monster.

He is a monster.

Yeah, we have to find him.

We have to find him, wherever he may be.

TAXIBOL