Feguenson Hermogène

Two days after the death of her boyfriend Yvon, Nadia, a young Haitian immigrant in Cuba, receives visits at her home from different people who care for her in her grief. As she watches her mourning, Yvon prepares to make one last visit.

A short film about the director’s relationship with sewing, a craft he knew from a very young age thanks to his seamstress mother.

To break a spell, Maya invokes the spirit of Ayo: a former love who is turning into an egum, to help her create a Patuá, a Yoruba spiritual protection amulet. Together they invoke their ancestors, thus allowing Maya to continue with her life, while Ayo completes her journey to the world of the dead.

Ritual dances, incantations and fetishes in an associative sequence of mystical scenes reveal the roots of the Afro-Cuban minority in Bauta, Cuba, whose colonial past is guarded by a statue of a slave in chains. Tobacco smoke and magical ceremonies awaken the spirits of ancestors and invite them to fill the forgotten places of cultural memory of a young generation searching for their identity in a post-colonial era of political instability and religious syncretism.