On the sun-drenched island of Haiti at the end of the 1970s, tourists idle away their vacations in the palm-fringed. paradise of the beach hotels. Brenda, Ellen and Sue, three North American women, converge on the island looking for flirtation, relaxation and respite from their mundane jobs and marriages. They find exactly what they are looking for in Legba, an enigmatic . local Adonis-like boy, whose beauty and passion captivates them all and who leads them away from the gilded cage of tourism and opens their eyes to the poverty and dangers of living in Haiti in the midst of the "Baby Doc" Duvalier dictatorial regime.

Award winning French Director Laurent Cantet (Human Resources; Time Out) travels to the post colonial Haiti of the 1970's to study issues of social class, sex tourism and economic power. Based on the short stories by Haitian writer Dany Laferriere, Heading South is an intimate portrait of female loneliness and jealousy set against the backdrop of social injustice, a must see film both topical and relevant.

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