JERONIMO

Born in 1926 to Korean indentured servant parents in Cuba, Jeronimo Lim Kim becomes the first Korean to enroll in university in the same school and year as Fidel Castro. Jeronimo joins the Cuban revolution and later becomes a Vice Minister in the Castro government, crossing paths with Fidel, Che Guevara and Barbarroja, the notorious head of the Cuban intelligence agency, along the way. Having experienced poverty and discrimination as ethnic minority, Jeronimo believed that communism would guarantee equal rights and opportunity as other Cubans.However, after being disillusioned with the unfulfilled aspirations of communism, and after visiting the now divided homeland, first North Korea in 1967 - likely on an undercover mission for the Cuban government - and then South Korea in 1995, Jerónimo becomes a changed man and dedicates the remaining years until his death to reconnecting to his Korean roots and singlehandedly rebuilding the Korean community in Cuba.