Lakay Nou (meaning "Our Home" in Haitian Creole) is a Canadian television comedy series, which premiered in 2024 on Ici Radio-Canada Télé.
[3] Henri, whose parents Frank (Fayolle Jean) and Rose (Mireille Metellus) live in the other half of the same duplex, has been running the used bookstore previously owned by his father, while Myrlande is a Crown attorney.
In the first episode of the series, Henri receives news from his landlord Steve (François Chénier) that the store will be evicted from its longtime location due to Steve's plans to demolish the building; after struggling to get his father to accept the news, he decides to simply close the bookstore, whose business has been rapidly dwindling in the era of online bookshopping, and instead chase his own deferred dream of opening a Haitian cuisine restaurant.
Meanwhile, Myrlande struggles with whether or not to accept a new job with a corporate law firm where she will have to defend clients associated with organized crime, but will make significantly more money than she does as a public prosecutor, and thus will be able to properly support the family through the upheaval in Henri's career.
[6] According to Pierre, he had been interested in creating a television series centred on Quebec's Haitian community for a number of years, but faced indifference from the industry due to a perception that the concept would not appeal to mainstream audiences in Quebec, until finding a more receptive audience for his pitch following the George Floyd protests in 2020 and the resulting conversations about institutional racism.