The Rainy Season: Haiti Since Duvalier

Through a series of personal journeys, interwoven with scenes from the country's past, this documents Amy Wilentz's arrival in Haiti in 1986, days before the ousting of Haiti's President for Life, Jean-Claude Duvalier and shows how the hope of change turned to disappointment when liberation led to chaos and stagnation. In Port-au-Prince, Haiti's capital, Wilentz leads us through the streets, bustling by day and by night filled with gunfire and burning tyres. She explores the countryside where young soldiers control road-blocks and farmers struggle to survive and where belief in voodoo the peasants' religion is as strong as ever. Wilentz offers portrtais of today's Haitians - Father Aristide the rebel priest and spiritual force behind the opposition, the various military-backed leaders, the wild kids who roam the streets, the State Department men, the Christian missionaries and the international press corps who jet in for each coup.