Director Katia Café-Fébrissy decides to visit her ancestral homeland of Guadeloupe to connect with family members who are estranged due to property disagreements. Slowly, she begins to notice a seemingly endless and unsettling number of decaying houses, abandoned because of unresolved inheritance claims, that are in striking contrast with the gorgeously lush and fertile terrain of the island. Resolved to get to the bottom of this troubling reality, Café-Fébrissy invites four women to share their strikingly similar stories of familial rupture, transforming a deeply emotional and personal journey into community inquiry. Using a haunting visual language evoking the ghosts of a complicated collective past, Café-Fébrissy pieces together the mystery of the numerous family feuds plaguing the island, tracing the roots of these ruptured relationships beyond the cultural perceptions of property, ownership and death down to the core of the broken systems in place—a relic of French colonialism and its lasting legacy of divisiveness, which still lingers over the island to this day. Mariam Zaidi
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