Strawberry and chocolate are two very different, but complementary flavors. This thought-provoking political comedy-drama from Cuba follows the friendship between two men who are very much like the title flavors. Young college student David is a staunch supporter of Castro and brims with party-line idealism and untried machismo. The film opens with David observing the wedding of the girl he unsuccessfully tried to bed. Afterward, David is adrift on life's ocean until he encounters the effete, proudly homosexual Diego eating strawberry ice cream in a local parlor (to David, Diego's choice of flavors immediately marks him as gay). Diego is immediately interested in David whom he lures to his apartment and makes an obvious attempt at seduction. David is innocent, but he is not gullible and Diego's attempt fails. But while David is not interested in Diego's body, he is increasingly intrigued with his flamboyant, and dangerously non-conformist thoughts. Diego is a lover of culture and his apartment abounds with great books, recordings and even smuggled in Scotch. When Diego begins prattling about the evils of Castro's regime and the degradation of modern Cuban society, David is appalled. At the urging of his friend, the youth returns to the older man's cluttered apartment to spy. But as the conversations continue, he finds himself increasingly seduced by Diego's subversively intellectual world.
