Within minutes of his arrival in Kingston, Ivan has all his possessions stolen by a carter. They sing the Boney M song “Rivers of Babylon”.  Ivan finds out that although thrilled to see him, his mother has no room at her home.  Daisy stresses to him that if he stays in Kingston,  “He will turn criminal”.  They go to the cinema to see the early Western Django with Franco Nero, projected behind the gauze curtain, and during the action sing Suzan-Lori Parks’ original song “Hero Don’t Never Die”.  Ivan is hungry but the woman fruit seller fights him off wielding a large machete. 

Ivan meets the beautiful Elsa (Madeline Charlemagne) in the church congregation who is the ward of the Preacher (Jason Pennycooke).  The congregation cast off their voluminous white robes for the most sexually explicit thrust and grind dance ever seen inside a church.  Ivan of course gets to dance with Elsa.  A male member of the congregation loves Elsa but tells Ivan that the Preacher has designs on her. Indeed he does, despite their age difference, and when the Preacher tells Elsa he hopes she will be his wife, Elsa says, “You’re a little old for me.”  The director underlines this fact by Pennycooke having great difficulty in getting up from his knees, needing help and limping off.