Young Pedro unpacks his memory between Isabella, the native island where he grew up under the benevolent gaze of his grandmother, and Montreal, where he joins his mother overwhelmed by poverty. Sentimental education. Scenes from life. Racism. Tossed between the sweetness of a Caribbean childhood and the harshness of Montreal exile, Pedro then discovers his fears, his fantasies, his true sexual identity, and above all the greatness and complicity of a mother in the face of disillusionment.