ANNA IN THE TROPICS

In the Prohibition Era in the 1920s, a Cuban-American family owns a cigar factory in Florida. Who's traditional way of making the cigars is rolling them by hand. While rolling the cigars the factory would hire a person called, a "Lector." An individual who reads to the workers out loud during the work hours to help pass time. The family soon hire a lector from the island named, Juan Julian, who decides to read them Tolstoy's infamous novel, "Anna Karenina." The family soon parallel the novel with their own lives in the factory. As they listening to this sensual and emotional novel,  it also challenges the dynamics and relationships of one another in their family. Including struggling the internal battle of keeping traditions of the cigars and the lector's as they soon progress into the new era of industrialism.