Nadia is a Haitian biologist living in Cuba, researching local wildlife. Until she receives a visit from deep waters, and the Cuban forest begins to speak in other languages. On that day, Haiti never seemed so far from Nadia.
One family, three men, three generations, all living together with their contrasting aspirations, within the contradictions of daily life in southern Haïti. Tensions mount between them, their ever-present machetes on-hand, defining them.
Tinamiz, a banana saleswoman from Jacmel (Haïti) raises her seven-year-old daughter alone while she tries to win her husband Andre back, an artist who left them to supposedly find work in the city.
