Arquivo

An unwanted pregnancy confronts Makenya with sudden adulthood. The teenager lives alongside her grandfather and Mother in the Batey, a Dominican- Haitian community of sugarcane workers. The mechanization of the sugar industry threatens to displace them without compensation. The family resists the change. Makenya reunites with her friends in a parallel and Afro-futuristic dimension. In a theatrical exercise, they recall the black uprisings on the island, and recover ancestral knowledge that forms a sort of anti-racist and decolonial manifesto. Makenya quickly discovers that the job does not guarantee her the freedom she had hoped for. Frustration opens the door to her dimension of social activism.

Presented in the Giornate degli Autori at the Venice International Film Festival.