The Mambo Kings play songs of love

New York. 1949. It's the era of the mambo, and two young Cuban musicians, workers by day, become stars by night, where they play the lush, sensuous, pulsing music that earns them the title of Mambo Kings. Looking back on their lives and loves, this quasi-memoir (peopled with such actual personages as Desi Arnaz) is an enthralling meditation on passion and loss, memory and desire.