Je vous écris par-delà les mers

Playwright Jean-René Lemoine returns to Haiti where his mother was savegely murdered one year earlier. Far from imagining he will track down the perpetrators - and he never will – he wants only to take a step back in time, to understand what led up to such a barbaric and tragic end. It doesn’t take long for Jean-René Lemoine to understand that his personal quest and the violence ravaging the country are ingrained in the same questioning about Haitian identity. Everyone he talks to about his mother’s death emphasizes a personal loss, speaking as if they were orphans from their own mother. He gradually realizes how deeply that fearless and beyond-reproach woman of principle, living her life regardless of danger, is missing in that adrift country, surrendered to arbitrary and collective dementia.