This film tells the story of self-discovery as Haitian-American filmmaker, Rachelle Salnave, ventures to confront the grace, and simultaneously the unseemliness of her native ideologies. 

Using her own personal family stories, this film chronologically uncovers the rationale behind Haiti’s social class system, and how it has affected the Haitian American migration experience. With the proliferation of political turmoil, poverty, and now as an earthquake shattered nation, La Belle Vie: The Good Life beckons all to work as one to rebuild and prosper in the name of a new and stronger Haiti.

Followed by a talk with Rachelle Salnave, filmmaker and Carl Juste, Pulitzer Prize winning photojournalist.