Plantations have mainly been studied as precursor forms of capitalism or as their most exemplary outcome, as a system which relies on the alienation of workers and non-human actors and the production or reproduction of racial, national and gender discrimination. Exploring former workers’ nostalgia about their municipality’s plantation past and its multiple meanings, this chapter describes how citrus plantations have come to materialize the promises of development and modernity of the Cuban Revolution and to embody the Socialist State’s sovereignty in marginal areas of Western Cuba. State sovereignty was instituted through boundary drawing and processes of exclusion-inclusion that crystallize around the constitution of state property and state farms. The plantation transformed people’s life and working conditions, linking new norms and values to personal experiences of upward mobility. As the plantation collapsed, diverging accounts of its demise keep asserting State Sovereignty as a form of vanished normality.