Haiti, 1962. A man is brought back from the dead only to be sent to the living hell of the sugarcane fields. In Paris, 55 years later, at a prestigious all-girls boarding school, Melissa, a young Haitian teenager, confesses an old family secret to a group of new friends, never imagining that this strange tale will convince a heartbroken classmate to do the unthinkable.

A return to the age-desegregated mixed musical bag approach that has earned Dan Zanes his place at the forefront of the family music genre. The album features the multitalented singer/violinist/whistler Andrew Bird, funk/soul singer Sharon Jones's powerful voice in a duet, West African group The Sierra Leone Refugee All Stars, and Zanes's long time friend Joan Osborne. Zanes also recorded with the scrappy and soulful youth orchestra of the nonprofit...