While she was a graduate student in Canada, Korean filmmaker Joung Ho Hyun traveled to Cuba one summer for vacation. The trip would change her life. There, she would discover a new pace of life full of dance & passion, & meet & fall in love with a younger Cuban man, Orielvis. Joung puts her own life on film in the lively documentary Cuban Boyfriend, which follows the couples three-year journey from encounter to marriage, Havana to Seoul. Through their experiences, Joung depicts not only a sweet love story, but also culture shock, discrimination, understanding, & the clash & compromise of different cultures as they learn to adjust to new surroundings & societies & embrace each others values & ways of life.