 Martine picks up Sophie from the airport in New York.

Sophie thinks that she

looks thin and unwell.
 She suffers from terrible nightmares and Sophie soothes her. She tells Sophie
that she will not let her go again.
 Martine introduces Sophie to Marc and the rest of the Haitian-American
community in Brooklyn. She tells her daughter that she must get a good
education.
 She also tells Sophie that she may not have a boyfriend until she's eighteen, so
that she focuses on what is important (i.e. bringing honor to the family).
 She asks Sophie if she is the mother that she'd been imagining.
 Martine tells Sophie the truth about how she was born. She thinks Sophie must
look like the man who fathered her, since she doesn't look like the other Caco
women.
 Martine works two jobs so that she can support Sophie and send money back
home to her mother and sister in Haiti.
 When Sophie turns eighteen, she hooks up with their neighbor, Joseph. Martine
is not okay with this.
 Martine finds out that Sophie has been fooling her so that she can date Joseph.
She begins virginity testing her daughter on a weekly basis.
 When she finds that Sophie's hymen has been broken, she kicks her out.
 Martine refuses to answer Sophie's letters once her daughter has left home and
is married.
 Once Joseph contacts her about Sophie's disappearance, she sends a cassette
to her mother and sister in Haiti to tell them about it. She appears soon
afterward.
 She helps her mother to plan her funeral (Ifé's funeral, that is) and tries to patch
things up a little with Sophie.