The player takes on the role of a maroon, a term used to describe a slave who has run away from his master’s plantation. She/He is both a historical and literary figure of resistance, present in the work of Colson Whitehead, Édouard Glissant and in the works of artists and authors related with Afrofuturism. It embodies the hope of freedom, the difficulty of emancipation, and takes dangerous and mysterious paths like the underground railroad in North America. Escape appears to be an act of immense courage, and its success depends on the encounters that punctuate it. 

The fugitive flees violence and submission, she/he advances towards a land that will be her/his own. She/He doesn’t know when her/his path ends, or where the boundary between free and unfree lies. This physical and psychological quest, aided and hunted, raises the question of the aftermath, which should enable her/him to emancipate her/himself from the trauma she/he has experienced.