HEADING SOUTH (2005)

Cast

Plot

On the sun-drenched palm-fringed paradise island of Haiti at the end of the 1970s, Brenda, Ellen and Sue, three North American women, look for flirtation, relaxation and respite from their mundane jobs and marriages. They find exactly what they are looking for in Legba, an enigmatic local Adonis, whose beauty and passion captivates them all. But Legba decides to show the women not just a world of pleasure but also a Haiti beyond the gilded cage of tourism, a poor and fearful society under the brutal regime of ‘Baby Doc' Duvalier. An entertaining, moving, audacious and stimulating film about happiness, love, jealousy, fear, race, sex, class, social and colonial oppression – in short, the relationship between the personal and the political. ‘It's hard to tell the good masks from the bad, but everyone wears one,' says the airport woman.