"1937" 

Josephine, is going to visit her mother at the prison. She meets a man on the street selling leeches and they then share a small conversation about her origin then he shows her a place where she can buy food for the inmates in the prison. Her mother was sentenced with charges of dabbling in the occult, and witch was giving life in prison. When she dies she will be burned and the remains will be spread out in the yard so her soul won't go to a new body. The guards don't treat them horribly she says. Also they get ice water poured on them so they don't grow there wings of fire and escape. Her mother gotten beaten to death because the guards didn't know how to heal the sickness she had. Then Josephine holds the doll and looks at the sun and in hope to one day see her mother again. 

"A wall of fire rising"

Family lives in a shack there is 3 children. All they eat is a cornmeal mush, it's better then not eating however. The only way the know what's going on outside of Haiti, is a TV that the governor decided to install in the center of town so the people could watch the state-sponsored news. They have a ritual before bed, he has to rub lemon over his wife's skin,  then he has memories of this father and how he was a poor man all his life. Guy remembers him as a man he never wants to be.