Anacacis, a lover of books, is growing
up on Rue Dessalines in a working-class neighbourhood of Port-au-Prince. Her father, an evangelical preacher, lives between sermons and promises of salvation, while her mother works as a typist on Rue de la Réunion, typing all kinds of documents - real and forged.

When her mother falls seriously ill, sixteen-year-old Anacacis has to drop out of school and take her place on the street. But a major event upends her life: Anacacis leaves the street to become a waitress at Bar Distraction, a literary bar. In this place haunted by poetry yet marked by machismo, the young girl nurtures her lifelong dream more than ever: to become a writer.