Dany climbs a mountain in the Haitian countryside with difficulty. He has traveled to Haiti to surprise his Aunt Estina, who he hasn’t seen in the six years since he moved to New York. Aunt Estina had been the one who raised him. As he approaches the villages, he runs into some children and an Old Zo, an elderly man who knows his aunt. He asks Dany about his parents, who had died in an explosion when Dany was a boy. Old Zo leads him to his aunt’s house, situated in a lush valley on the otherwise barren mountain. She is not there, but other villagers begin to surround the house and complain that Dany forgot them once he left for New York. His aunt arrives. She is blind. Dany’s aunt is curious why he showed up so suddenly. Dany reveals that in New York he found the man who killed his parents and, in the same explosion, took his aunt’s sight. At that moment Old Zo comes inside with food and refreshments. For the rest of the afternoon, villagers come in and out of the house bearing food. Afterwards, Dany and Aunt Estina go to sleep. But before Dany falls asleep, he hears his aunt talking in her sleep. He notes that she is a night talker, just like him.  The next day, Dany’s aunt asks him to speak English to a teen in the village, Claude, a deportee. Claude expresses his admiration that Dany has stayed in touch with his home and his aunt. He also describes how prison and his time in Haiti have reformed him. After he leaves, Old Zo’s daughter, Ti Fanm, comes in and shares that Claude was in prison for killing his own father. At night again, Dany dreams about the events leading up to his parents’ death, and about having the conversation he wanted to have with his aunt—about the man who killed his parents. In the dream, Dany meets the man, Albert Bienaimé, in New York, and takes the empty room in his basement to observe him. He fantasizes of killing him, but he is stopped by a feeling he can’t identify. When he wakes up, his aunt is awake and listening to him recite the story in his sleep. However, she said he was calling his parents’ names, not Albert’s. The two talk for a bit. In the morning, she is dead.  Ti Fanm discovers the body and alerts the village. The villagers come to the house to examine her and prepare her for burial. For the most part they ignore Dany, who sits silently. Throughout the burial and wake, Dany is mostly unresponsive. Eventually, as he sits down on one of the ledges of his aunt’s mausoleum, Claude comes over to talk with him. Dany bluntly brings up the rumor that Claude killed his father. Claude confesses without sorrow, saying there’s no excuse for why he did—he had been fucked up. Dany offers his condolences, but Claude is surprised, and says he is lucky, because now he is driven by a desire to always be better than he was. For his aunt’s sake, Dany continues to speak with Claude for a long time, and professes that he is a night talker as well—but admires that he can speak his nightmares in the daytime.