“The Color Of Pain” is a memoir about life growing up in Dangriga, Belize, Central America, and the ‘love’ that Belizean parents show to their children, often moving and leaving those children that they love in an attempt to make a better life for them by sending monetary support from other parts of the world. Many abandoned Belizean children believe that such love is more pain than love.

A young boy, Alex, is born in Belize, where he grows up until he’s forced to move to England at age five with his mother, Cathlean, who’d schemed until she got married to a white British soldier, John. After ten years, the family returns to Belize, where Alex continues to feel the sting of pain from a cold, unloving Cathlean, but finds love in the arms of a local girl, Sherrette. Things quickly spiral out of control as Alex finds that his and Sherrette’s love is not enough to replace the color of pain he feels. Eventually, fast-paced revelations push their love to the edge; love becomes excruciating pain.