La Última Cena plot
During Holy Week at the end of the eighteenth century, a count visits his sugar mill in Havana. One of his slaves had just run away. The count tells his harsh overseer, Don Manuel, to choose twelve slaves to eat with him in the evening. The twelfth guest is the recaptured slave. During the evening meal, the count lectures them about how complete happiness is possible in slavery; he uses religious analogies for this. He promises that there will be no work on Good Friday, but when he himself leaves early that morning, Don Manuel wakes the slaves for a long day of cane-cutting.