Mona remembers all too clearly the night of the big row in the house on Manahambre Road, back in her native island of Trinidad, when Da-Da, in a drunken rage, seemed ready to kill her nine-year-old brother, Kello. Grown up now, and living in Montreal, Mona wryly perceives herself as the calm at the centre of her family's storm. She yearns to make sense of her tortured family and the feeling of displacement that haunts her. And as she visits her dying brother, and ...
