One year after the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, Alexandre, who's lived in hospital for many years, is going back home. In the space of two days, Eliane, the eighty-six-year-old implacable matriarch, gathers her children and prepares them to take care of her son, barely known by some members of the family. Alexandre will have to learn how to live with his family again, and vice versa. His presence in the family home will change everyone’s lives, revealing many things to his brothers, sisters, uncles, aunts, and cousins. Old memories will rise to the surface, as well as emotions long-suppressed…