Freda lives with her mother, sister, and little brother in a working-class neighborhood of Haiti. They survive with their little street food shop. The precariousness and violence of their daily life push them to do everything they can to escape their situation in the hope of finding a better life.

Opening a window onto the capital of a failing state, this delicately observed family drama thrums with the life of the city and the mind. Against the backdrop of Port-au-Prince’s gang insurgency, this moving cri de coeur gives poignant reality to its young protagonist’s curtailed aspirations.