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While Lili and Little Guy enjoy looking at the balloon, Guy is completely obsessed with it. When not in use, the hot air balloon is locked away in a field surrounded by a chain link fence. The Assads, the wealthy Haitian-Lebanese family that runs the sugar mill, have a hot air balloon from America that they fly in the skies above the shantytown. Over the past year, however, Guy and his family have found their own amusement. Once the news finishes, people stay around to make bonfires and complain about the government. The government had installed a large television near the mill so that Haitians living in the shantytown could watch the state-sponsored news. The family eats their meager dinner of cornmeal mush and decides to go to the local sugar mill for entertainment. Little Guy gives a spirited performance for his parents, and their applause thunders in their little house.
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The play is about the Haitian revolutionary Dutty Boukman, and is full of passionate, fiery language. Lili encourages Little Guy to recite one of his monologues for his father. Before he can share his news, Little Guy says proudly that he was assigned the lead role in his school play. One day Guy comes home with news to tell. Lili is a stay-at-home mother, Little Guy goes to school, and Guy works odd jobs. Guy, Lili, and Little Guy live in a one-room shack in a shantytown in Haiti’s countryside.