Caroline Hayeur

In the middle of the night, in the Québec countryside, all hell breaks loose as a black teenager is caught smashing a racially denigrating lawn ornament. Together the neighbours attend to justice against the vandal. Thorough the night there is mounting racism, fueled by alcohol, and violence. Le Nèg' opens the morning after when the police investigators arrive at the scene to take depositions.

In an abandoned city, in the middle of a field left barren by the harvest, on a deserted railway track, travels an autumnal figure transformed by the places she inhabits. First, a playful sprite who wanders the frontier between asphalt and wasteland under a sparrowhawk’s gaze, she changes form as she enters a flat stretch of farmland, now a nomad.Like migrating birds, the exile must make this journey to come back to the self. The meandering ends in the forest. Now a witch, this strange figure peacefully returns to the sand, the river, the plants and the roots.With a calm wildness, amidst the rustling of raven wings, she is absorbed into the earth, finding solace at last.