Meet Dennis Pierrot, a big and tall black man living in the City of Cap-Haitien, Haiti. A maintenance man at College Notre Dame Du Perpetuel Secours, Dennis is a hard working brother with an embarrassing problem of a personal nature. Simply put, Dennis is constantly constipated, and he has tried just about everything to cure his affliction. What's a brother to do under those circumstances?
"Hmm, I think I can help you with that," said Dennis neighbor and long-time friend Mademoiselle Eloise, after he revealed his personal issue. Mademoiselle Eloise is a short, curvy black woman in her early fifties. Many people in the Loge neighborhood, located in the Bel-Air suburb of Cap-Haitien, think of Mademoiselle Eloise as a Mambo, the local term for a witch. What's wrong with a Haitian lady of a certain age practicing traditional medicine and communing with the spirits? There's no law against that.
The Haitian Constitution permits freedom of religion, and the Voodoo faith, which many rural Haitians adhere to, is as legal as Catholicism and Islam. A lot of Haitians have embraced Islam after the 2010 Earthquake, and Haitian Muslims are now present in every facet of Haitian society. Mademoiselle Eloise respects both Catholicism and Islam, but the Voodoo faith is the one true religion as far as the old Haitian lady is concerned. Voodoo empowers women, while Islam and Catholicism uphold the patriarchy system...
"Merci beaucoup, Mademoiselle Eloise," Dennis said, and the older black woman smiled at him, marveling at the burly brother's naivete. Mademoiselle Eloise sat Dennis down, and asked him what had been troubling him. Dennis confessed to having sexual feelings about Daniella, a lovely young woman who lived in the Rue Deux area and did not seem to notice that he existed. Daniella is engaged to a young carpenter named Michel, and thinks of Dennis as a slow-witted fool with pervy tendencies.