 Haïti, a Carribean island. A land torn between America and Africa. After three decades of bloody dictatorship, President Aristide restores democracy in 1994. He disbands the army and creates from start to finish a new police force. 5,200 young men, most of them academics, are trained within only four months and sent away throughout the country. Today, from Cité Soleil, a shanty town of 400,000 inhabitants, to Hinche, a remote province, a few Haitian policemen struggle to carry out a mission that becomes each day more difficult.