Louis Bu, or 'El Cojo' as friends call him because of an injury from a bicycle accident. He is one of thirteen residents of Residencia del Anciano Chino, a state-run residential home for the aging Chinese-Cubans in Barrio Chino. At its height, the ethnic Chinese population in Cuba was about 40,000. There were three Chinese movie theaters, independent businesses, a bank, a theater that contracted Chinese performers and three Chinese newspapers, one of which still publishes today.