Jean Remy Gentil is a middle aged man fluent in four languages who used to be a professor in his hometown, Haiti. He moved to the Dominican Republic looking for a job. At the beginning of the film, Jean wears a suit and wants to become an accountant, but he cannot find a job and ends up becoming a construction site worker when he runs out of money. However, Jean is weak and not used to hard labor, so he gives up and moves to the forest to build a house and live there. There, he survives by digging and eating yams. During his transformation from a professor to a laborer to homeless person, Jean cries out to God to overcome his extreme loneliness and pain. The film is shot in documentary style and uses handheld camera, nonprofessional actors, filmed mostly outdoor. The director refrains from using lighting and music score to focus on the situation of Santo Domingo. The film expresses the coexistence of construction and destruction, city and rural areas, rich districts and slums, the multicultural society formed by immigration and emigration, and communications problems. Immigrant professor Jean might be fluent in several languages but he is a helpless and lonely loser as an outsider. His sole conversation is with God to whom he shares his pains of life. Jean barely makes ends meet by tutoring Haiti Creole and French, but the faint hope he finds is crushed by anguish. At the climax, the film makes the audience become one with Jean and feel his agonizing pain. His excruciating anguish makes the audience ruminate about how we have to survive in the neoliberal world where the survival of the fittest is disguised as globalization. (Jeong Minah)