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Tessa, a teenager, is dead. What looks like a suicide turns out to be a murder, based on a true incident. For her mother and cousin, the loss of Tessa has left a deep wound. Their grief and the violence of having a loved one ripped from their lives takes them from the present to the past and future in their reflections. Haiti merges with the United States. Uprooting, loss, and anger over the trauma of colonization manifest in dreamed journeys. As a ghost, Tessa attends her own funeral, has conversations with her mother, and relives phases of her unlived life - as a rebellion against death, accompanied by the living's desire for reunification and reparation.