Summary

1 – After the preacher of the Baptist Church of the Angels refuses to preach government-approved messages in church and criticizes the government on his radio show, he is targeted for death. Even his church members are arrested and taken away to the Caesernes Dessalines military barracks. An unidentified government man is given the task of silencing the preacher, but intimidation does not work. The man does his best to reassure himself that killing the preacher would be a good thing. The man has recently been considering leaving Haiti for Florida or New York to get away under the auspice of spying on Haitian expatriate communities. The man has a dream where he must flee Haiti disguised as a nun after the government falls. He interprets the dream as a sign of things to come. He remembers first becoming transfixed by the president’s...