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Havana, 1957. On the same day that the Mafia capo Umberto Anastasia is assassinated in a barber''s chair in New York, a hippopotamus escapes from the Havana zoo and is shot and killed by its pursuers. Assigned to cover the zoo story, Joaquín Porrata, a young Cuban journalist, instead finds himself embroiled in the mysterious connections between the hippo''s death and the mobster''s when a secretiv...
Havana, 1957. On the same day that the Mafia capo Umberto Anastasia is assassinated in a barber''s chair in New York, a hippopotamus escapes from the Havana zoo and is shot and killed by its pursuers. Assigned to cover the zoo story, Joaquín Porrata, a young Cuban journalist, instead finds himself embroiled in the mysterious connections between the hippo''s death and the mobster''s when a secretiv...
