When a young Ivorian, Koffi, traveling for the very first time, arrives in Montreal on a cold winter’s day, everything that can go wrong does. Jazz Infernal is a nuanced portrait of passion, the search for meaning, trust, power dynamics, brotherhood, grief, race, culture, and what it means to be different. It is a semi-autobiographical story, inspired by a series of experiences that Will Niava shares with many other immigrants from the diaspora, especially those who left everything behind to start over in an unfamiliar new environment.