Plot Summary

January 4, 2004, Haiti. Celebration of the bicentennial of the declaration of independence. For months, students and the general public have been protesting against the dictatorship of the "Prophet," President Aristide. Lucien, a philosophy student convinced of the success of the march toward democracy, is diametrically opposed to his younger brother Little Joe, a thug recruited by the Chimères to suppress the student march. This day will seal the fate of the two brothers.