Reynold is dying from stomach cancer. Gradually unable to eat normally due to his condition, he resigns himself to starving to death. Grim memories surface of how he had cheated starvation once before as a prisoner in Fort-Dimanche Prison. The last meals that he can still eat provide an opportunity to share these memories with his daughter Vanessa, who he has not seen for 20 years.

At first reluctant, Vanessa finally agrees to go see her father. With the help of her aunt, the owner of a Haitian grocery store, she prepares Haitian dishes for her father.

Over the course of these meals, a ritual develops at Reynold’s bedside as each traditional dish from his youth sparks a memory from his past. He opens up and tells his daughter for the very first time about the abuse that he suffered and, so, frees himself of a heavy burden.

And Vanessa discovers her father’s true nature: a loving father whose heart was hardened under dictatorship.

team

Directed by

Maryse Legagneur

Scriptwriting -Maryse Legagneur

Production – François Bonneau and Bernadette Payeura

Director of photography – Mathieu Laverdière

Artistic concept – Caroline Alder

Costume Design – Catherine Guyot-Sionnest

Sound – Yann Cleary, Simon Gervais and Stéphane Bergeron

Editing – Myriam Magassouba

Original music – Jenny Salgado

Casting – Pierre Pageau and Daniel Poisson

Assistant Director – Catherine Kirouac

Production manager – Marie-Louise Gariépy

Post-production management – Mélanie Gauthier and Myriam Therrien

 


Distribution

Gilbert Laumord

Fabrice Yvanoff Sénat

Marie-Evelyne Lessard

Mireille Métellus

Jean Jean

pictures

by Lou Scamble

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