- Maria, 18 year old daughter of a single mother, decides to look for the father she has never met after her mother dies in a tragic accident. She finally finds him in a nearby town, living in what appears to be a haunted old country house in the middle of a neglected banana plantation. Amidst the peculiarities and superstitions of the Dominican country side, father and daughter will have to face the ghosts of the past that haunt them both.—Leticia Tonos
- As a child, María was a simple and sensitive young girl with the strange habit of putting ladybugs in her mouth. After her mother dies in an accident, 18yearold María decides to look for the father she has never met. María travels to a picturesque and supersticious little town in the Dominican Republic taking what few belongings she has and a puzzling red dress her mother kept mysteriously hidden under her bed. María finds her father Joaquín living in a dark old house located in the middle of an abandoned banana plantation, which the locals claim to be haunted by spirits. He lives there with an enigmatic Haitian as his only companion. Having no one else in the world, she has no option but to stay with this drunken and recently widowed old man in this house where she will have to deal with the ghosts of the past that haunt them. The arrival of a mysterios and attractive young man from Puerto Rico will also get in the way of their reconciliation. The various characters of the film are linked by the underline theme of painfull migration around the Caribbean thats been going on since slavery, characters from countries with very different backgrounds but at the same time extremely related in their everyday life intertwine, like the Haitian that must go illegally to the Dominican Republic for a better living but at the same time, the Dominican that crosses the dangerous Mona Canal in a raft to get to Puerto Rico looking for more opportunities. LOVE CHILD is a vibrant story about the universal search for oneself through love, forgiveness and the realization of the mistery of life.
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