The first story traces the death (and back to the life) of a Cuban woman who left Cuba and seeked political asylum in Canada.   The nameless woman in the video symbolizes Cuba the country, or perhaps the ones who have left their native land to make a new home elsewhere.   It is the tale about the experiences of a refugee, a woman of colour, in her new life in a foreign country.   It is a tale of exile, adventure, alienation, and the search for dreams, freedom, love and acceptance.  

The second story follows the videomaker in his daily accounts of his visit to Havana.   It is also the story of his daily struggles and learning to deal with the loss in his life. In a way, the videomaker too deals with his past in his internal exile.

To interweave the two very personal stories, the video borrows footages from various films made in or of Cuba.   For a country that has been exploited and exoticized by the entertainment industry and the media, SHE WAS CUBA questions representation, imagination and imaging.