Memories of Development takes an intimate look at the long-term effects of exile and disillusion within the Cuban diaspora. Edmundo, a former revolutionary who immigrated long ago to the United States, now finds himself in his sixties facing an uncertain future and the encroachment of old age and death. As he takes stock of his life, we see a man who has let his failed ideals and corrosive desires shatter his faith in humanity and leave him exquisitely isolated. Estranged from the idealism of his remembered past and the material realities of his North American present, Edmundo is a man straddling two worlds with little hope of finding peace in either.