在这部糖之花剧情/历史/冒险片中,山謬是個平凡的農民，他和懷孕的妻子以及女兒過著開心且知足的生活。在一次意外中，山謬和多明尼加獨裁者特魯希略的手下起了口角，不慎殺害一名軍人，他被迫逃到鄰近的小島以躲避追殺。在小島的那段時光，他當起了漁夫，雖然日子逐漸安穩，但他心中卻也不斷地惦記著遠方的妻兒，於是，山謬決定策劃漫長的返家之路。
(1944-1949 Dominican Republic, during the dictatorship of Raphael Leonidas Trujillo) One island and two completely different nations. Destiny unites the live of two peasant families, one Dominican and the other Haitian. Samuel, a young Dominican peasant, faces the injustice of Trujillo which leads him to kill a soldier in self defense, he's forced to flee to a distant island of fishermen in the Caribbean away from his family.
