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.
A restless daughter meets a spirit-fish who gives her pure water. But as her family devours the delicious water, they begin to suspect more than the origin of its taste.
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.
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.
