Haendel Dorfeuille

Barikad explores the subject of the class system in the Haitian society, and forbidden love between different social classes.

In a fortress on a hill in Haiti a democratically elected president prepares himself for a state ceremony. On the day of the festivities the president finds his country in turmoil. The whole nation is in the grips of a riot that has broken out overnight. But nothing should stop the president’s ceremony.