 In addition, the twins serve as further foreshadowing in terms of the Rosalinda's caul and Rafael's death.The caul served as an omen of bad luck to come and Rafael's unexpected death foreshadowed many more deaths, such as the sudden death of Kongo's son and the unprecedented number of deaths of Haitians.Set in the Dominican Republic in the 1930s, "The Farming of Bones" tells the story of a young Haitian girl named Amabelle Desir.