Kelvin is a young student whose father has abandoned him, his brother, and his mother. She had an obstetric fistula from giving birth that made it very difficult for her to work. Kelvin is close with his grandparents but his mother struggles to keep the family housed and there are days they only have one meal. He wants to succeed in school along with his brother.

When Wadner was 6, his parents moved to the Dominican Republic and brought him with them. They left some of his siblings with his grandmother in Haiti. They sent him back to his grandmother's house to attend Haitian school, but he always spent summer vacation with them. When he was 12, he starting attending school in the Dominican Republic. Ever since then, he has been at the Institution of the Improvement of Life Through Education preparing to return to Haiti to take the National Exam in June.