A family’s long-carried grief forms the heart of this highly personal blend of fiction and documentary, set in French Guiana. Teenage Melrick spends his seemingly carefree summers with his grandmother in the capitol, Cayenne, but his desire to learn drumming opens up his family’s memories of another boy who once drummed, before his life was taken away. Part coming-of-age story, part reflection on the endemic and senseless violence that still haunts the Caribbean, the film also offers, “on a deeper layer, a story about grief and forgiveness that also deals with the persisting consequences of colonialism: a violence that equally cannot pass” (CineEuropa).