 As Amabelle works to escape the government's intentions to “cleanse the country” by removing Haitians from the Dominican Republic, she travels as far as the Massacre River that borders the Dominican Republic and Haiti.While travelling through the Dominican Republic, the violence that Amabelle faces is representative of the brutal sentiments towards Haitians at the time.Once Amabelle and Yves reach Haiti, the setting is mostly concentrated in the town that Yves is from, "the Cap".