Heading South (2009)
Heading South
“He’d held down two jobs in factories that were at least an hour and a half from each other; he’d also owned a small bakery on Church Avenue. There are many like him, people with a dream in their heads who, in order to realize it, work like dogs in the hell that is New York. Such men and women are so obstinate that it sometimes takes thirty or more years of banging their heads against the city (New York’s heart is made of granite) to knock those dreams out of them. Simply put: to stop a Haitian ...from dreaming, you have to beat it out of him.
The man we’re concerned with now is named Mauléon Mauléus. His late father, a former judge in Gressier, left him a piece of land near the beach. He had not spent a single day in the factories without thinking about that postage stamp of land, nurturing his dream of building a small hotel, no more than a dozen rooms, nestled in the land’s luxurious vegetation. As time went on he added a few huts, separate from the hotel, for clients who wanted to feel closer to nature.MoreLess
The man we’re concerned with now is named Mauléon Mauléus. His late father, a former judge in Gressier, left him a piece of land near the beach. He had not spent a single day in the factories without thinking about that postage stamp of land, nurturing his dream of building a small hotel, no more than a dozen rooms, nestled in the land’s luxurious vegetation. As time went on he added a few huts, separate from the hotel, for clients who wanted to feel closer to nature.MoreLess
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