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Mardi's sunlit childhood in Haiti disappeared in the violence that forced President Aristide and thousands of other Haitians including members of her own family into exile ten years ago, but it took a long time for fourteen-year-old Mardi to admit to her family in Brooklyn just how traumatic her escape had been, to put violence behind her and begin to make her way in her new world.