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Infanticide portfolio

Logline

A young Haitian woman raped and impregnated by her unknown father, a corrupted congressman and murderer, must commit infanticide in order to eradicate decades of miseries and to stop incest from occurring in Haitian families.

Characters 

Dolores Chery - a pretty and attractive young Haitian woman, 18 years-old. She is reserved and smart enough to focus on her future because she wants to become a lawyer to defend the oppressed and voiceless in Haiti. She understands the critical life her mom lived and her struggles. She cares about social-economic and political issues that ruin Haitian people. She becomes who she is supposed to be after her prison experience.

Jeff Atoufè – a powerful political figure in the Haitian government. He is one of the sleekest gang leaders in Haiti. He is a serial kidnapper and a serial rapist. He has several groups of young boys who work for him to do his dirty work. He hides behind his violence to cover his weakness because he is afraid of challenge. His private security is his close ally.

Jamilee Innocent – Now 19, she was 3, when both of her parents died. She is a go-getter, a hustler. Dolores’ only and trusted friend. fearless. She is a unique friend who is always there for Dolores in good and bad moments. 

Lovanah Chery (33) – Dolores’ mother.  She is a third-generation victim of incest in her family. She got pregnant by her uncle and had Dolores at 15. She is over-protective, and a faithful voodooist.

SYNOPSIS

Dolores, has dreamed of becoming a prominent lawyer. To celebrate her acceptance into law school she goes to a voodoo ceremony with her best friend. They get drugged and raped by a corrupt congressman and his private security.

Dolores infiltrates the Congressman’s home as housekeeper, where she discovers that he is the actual leader of a notorious gang responsible for multiple kidnappings, tortures, and killings, in Haiti.

 When Dolores ends up pregnant from the rape, her best friend storms into the Congressman’s office to confront him and ask for money for Dolores’ abortion. Afterwards, the threatened congressman sends his gang to Dolores’ house, but she is not there; they instead kidnap and kill her mother. 

Dolores now alone, suicidal, and homeless gives birth inside a communal commode, her baby drops down the hole, as a man in the next stall hears noises and reports Dolores, who is soon arrested for Infanticide.

At her trial, Dolores enters a guilty plea, implicates the congressman, brings charges against him, and provides more than enough evidence against him. However, the corrupt police department does not process charges.

As the trial continue, Dolores learns that her baby survived, she asks to take the stand, and defends herself and fight as one woman for all Haitian people with a fierce passion like the lawyer she wants to be.  

When the jury returns a Not Guilty verdict, Dolores is set free and with anti-government supporters she attempts to find her best friend who has been kidnapped in retaliation by the Congressman. In the end, Dolores finds a hidden box that contains a picture that shows that the Congressman is her father. She never sees her child again.