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00:00We have Mr. Torsainville on the line.
00:09I don't understand who this is for.
00:11When it comes to talking about Jean-Claude Duvalier,
00:14people only say bad things about this man.
00:17Anyway, it seems to me that under his presidency,
00:21it was much better than it is today.
00:25Listen to him!
00:27But today, Haiti is a country where yesterday will always be better than tomorrow.
00:41Grandma, it's me.
00:43There will be no recovery fund.
00:45Stomach cancer. I'm going to die.
00:48Next time, you'll bring me griot.
00:51Cooking for someone is a gesture of love.
00:56My Sunday meal was always maïmoule.
00:59It's the only food we ate.
01:02This is my Bible.
01:03There are all the Gospels in it.
01:05The Gospel of Rijonjon, the Gospel of Lambi,
01:08and of course, the Gospel of the griot.
01:11Now I want you to tell me the rest.
01:16Death!
01:18It will come for us.
01:20In my prison, it's all the times
01:22when you forced me to go get your belt in the wardrobe and hit me with it.
01:25My sister gave in to him.
01:27Now you're the one giving in to him.
01:29It's looking at you.
01:30Everything that moves in my kitchen is looking at me.
01:39Soup Joumou is what the slaves in Haiti ate
01:42the day they took their independence,
01:44when they overcame the French colonists.
01:46All the courage of our ancestors was in there.
01:48The one who eats it becomes stronger
01:50and frees himself from his sufferings.
01:53It's not what we eat at our last meal that matters.
01:56It's what we share.