A realistic look at the horrors of the slave trade, told entirely through the voice of a dead African slave whose spirit haunts the ocean route.

Evocation of the ruthless war which opposed from 1890 to 1894 the French colonial army to the young Ahydjere Behanzin, king and living god of Dahomey, who ended in his surrender and his exile.

Portrait of Nord-Plage, a small neighborhood in the north of Martinique, which is slowly dying, and its last inhabitants, who have put aside their hopes and dreams.

Martinique late nineteenth century. Abandoning the plantation where they work, Hermansia and Tiquitaque, a couple of musicians, settled in Saint-Pierre. But they quickly disillusioned: career took off in a little town that is only interested in Western music. Begins for the couple a long drift during which they will learn these new sounds, these new music from elsewhere.