Alex Ismero

Shame of a Single Mother Alex Ismero

Samson is the only son of Marie-Claudette, the wife of the former cloth merchant who was shot dead during a demonstration in Haiti in 1986 under the reign of the Duvalier. On January 15, 1986, Samson was only three years old when his dad, the only son of Mr. Jacques Menard was killed and his wife, Marie-Claudette could not even have the body of her husband for the funeral for a last goodbye. It was Marie-Claudette's worst day before such an atrocity. A few months later, six months after the tragedy, one of Nicolas's friends came to encourage his old friend's wife and give him some money he had borrowed from the late Menard...