It is 1937, the Dominican side of the Haitian border. Amabelle, orphaned
at the age of eight when her parents drowned, is a maid to the young
wife of an army colonel. She has grown up in this household, a faithful
servant. Sebastien is a field hand, an itinerant sugarcane cutter. They
are Haitians, useful to the Dominicans but not really welcome. There are
rumors that in other towns Haitians are being persecuted, even killed.
But there are always rumors. Amabelle loves Sebastien. He is handsome
despite the sugarcane scars on his face, his calloused hands. She longs
to become his wife and walk into their future. Instead, terror enfolds
them. But the story does not end here: it begins. "The Farming of Bones"
is about love, fragility, barbarity, dignity, remembrance, and the only
triumph possible for the persecuted: to endure.