Overview

Living in the Cahos Mountains, a remote area secluded somewhere in Haiti, Elord, his family and his friends barely survive there. The region used to be prosperous though thanks to coffee growing. Until 1986 at any rate, the year the prices suddenly collapsed. People then stopped cultivating it and felled the trees in order to make and sell charcoal, which led to soil erosion and the subsequent impoverishment of the local peasants. Now, prices are rising again but coffee has almost disappeared. Elord and his friends do their best to replant coffee trees. To no avail...