Rafito finds he cannot mourn the death of his sister because of his continued involvement with human trafficking, bringing immigrants from the Dominican Republic to Puerto Rico by sea.
Rafito deals in smuggling undocumented people from the Dominican Republic to Puerto Rico, a territory of the United States. After his sister is murdered, he takes care of his family and the human-trafficking business. On his current journey, he will face death after the collapse of a craft filled with hopeful migrants. A story about daily survival in the contemporary Caribbean, ‘The Silence of the Wind’ seeks to contemplate this netherworld without judgement.
