Plot

A young peasant is forced to flee for killing involuntarily an abusive guard. After an entire year hiding in a remote fishing island, he decides to return to his countryside and reunite with his wife and daughters.

(1944-1949 Dominican Republic, during the dictatorship of Raphael Leonidas Trujillo) One island and two completely different nations. Destiny unites the live of two peasant families, one Dominican and the other Haitian. Samuel, a young Dominican peasant, faces the injustice of Trujillo which leads him to kill a soldier in self defense, he's forced to flee to a distant island of fishermen in the Caribbean away from his family.—Anonymus