There may be 50 ways to leave your lover, but how many ways are there to bump off a political enemy? Apparently, no less than 638 if Fabian Escalante, Former Head of Cuban Intelligence is to be believed. In any event, it wasn't enough to bring down revolutionary Cuban leader Fidel Castro. This film reveals every conceivable method of assassination, from exploding cigars to femme fatales; a radio station rigged with noxious gas to a poison syringe posing as an innocuous ball point pen. This extraordinary true story is both ludicrous and laughable yet poignant and tragic. It is a story of smoking guns and smoking cigars: a remarkable 50 year-long detective thriller. It is not a film about Castro, nor is it simply a lesson from Cold War history. It is a though-provoking and serious essay about a political obsession that says as much about America's foreign policy today as it does about the past.