Director: Johanne Gomez Terrero | Starring: Yelidá Díaz, Juan Maria Almonte, Ruth Emeterio | Dominican Republic | 2024

Makenya has given up carefree days of dancing with friends to search for work. An unexpected pregnancy thrusts her into adulthood. She lives with her grandfather and mother in a sugarcane worker settlement on the Dominican-Haitian border.

Her mother serves as a devotee of a mystical deity from one of the 21 branches of Afro-Dominican spiritual traditions, while her grandfather is an activist fighting for pension rights. Mechanization of the sugar industry threatens to put them out of work. The family stands united in resisting the change.

Makenya and her friends reunite in an Afrofuturist parallel realm. During a theatrical workshop, they read documents from the colonial era, revisited the island's Black uprisings, and reclaimed ancestral knowledge - shaping it into a manifesto of anti-racism and decolonization.

Makenya tries to sell cotton candy at the local market, only to realize that the job offers none of the freedom she had hoped for - marking a quiet but profound loss of innocence. Her sense of disillusionment becomes a gateway to activism: she joins her grandfather in protests demanding justice for sugarcane workers and receives mystical guidance from her mother - awakening to her own power and purpose. She found her strength.