Ma Kilman Timeline and Summary

We hear the origins of Ma Kilman's No Pain Café.
She listens to Seven Seas singing and cannot understand a word he's saying.
Philoctete comes in and she sets up "medicinals" to help him cope with his wound-pain.
Ma Kilman tries every herbal remedy she can remember on Philoctete's sore, but to no avail.
She goes to Mass, and as she prays, she runs through all the plants and herbs she knows, searching her memory for the right one.
After Mass, she is drawn to the woods by a rotting smell (like Philoctete's sore) and encounters a line of ants that speak to her in her ancestral language.
Ma Kilman is transfigured into a sibyl-obeah figure, releasing herself from her colonized identity and calling out in her ancestral language for Philoctete's cure.
She finds the plant and brews it into a healing bath for Philoctete.
Ma Kilman bathes him like an old mother, and his wound heals instantly.
When Plunkett comes to her to learn news of his dead wife, she tells him that she is happy and that he can speak directly to her if he wants.
Back in the café, Ma Kilman gossips with Seven Seas. She tells him of Achille's plan to give Helen's baby an African name and that Philoctete will be its godfather.
She is hosting her niece, Christine. She tells Seven Seas about a letter she's had from Statics in Florida and discusses Philoctete's amazing recovery.