James takes Katey back to the car and assaults her after she refuses to kiss him. Javier comes over and argues with his brother. Soon he is accosted by Javier's brother, Carlos, who tells him that they will eventually kick the Americans out of Cuba. Javier dances with Katey while James sits at the bar. Katey convinces him to take her to the Cuban nightclub La Rosa Negra (The Black Rose) where Javier is dancing with the ladies. Katey wears one of her maid's dresses to the country club party and impresses James. Javier sees her and asks her to come see the real dancers Saturday night, but she says she is already going to the country club. The next day, Katey tries some of the dance moves she saw. They stop to listen to a street band and police show up, stopping Javier while Katey runs away. While walking home from school, she sees Javier dancing to street music, and he offers to walk her home. After class, James invites her to a party at the country club the next day and she accepts. The next day in class, Katey is asked to read aloud from the Odyssey - a passage about love and passion. Katey watches a film of her mother and father dancing and wishes she could dance as well as they did. Katey attempts to talk to the waiter-Javier ( Diego Luna), who works at the hotel to support his family-because she feels awful about what had occurred, but he is not interested. Meeting several other rich American teenagers down by the pool - including James Phelps ( Jonathan Jackson), the son of her father's boss - Katey becomes disgusted when one of the teenagers insults a local waiter when he drops their drinks because Katey accidentally bumped into him. A self-described bookworm, Katey is not very happy about having to move to a different country during her senior year of high school, as she had been planning to attend Radcliffe College, although the rest of her family seem extremely pleased to be in Cuba. In 1958, Katey Miller ( Romola Garai), her parents ( Sela Ward and John Slattery), and her younger sister Susie ( Mika Boorem) arrive in Cuba during the Cuban revolution.
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