San Domingo is an experimental adaptation of Heinrich von Kleist's unfinished play The Betrothal in St. Domingo, set during the Haitian Revolution. Rather than presenting a historical narrative, Syberberg stages the story as an abstract, theatrical meditation on power, race, violence, and colonial ideology. Against the backdrop of a slave uprising, European colonial authority collapses into fear and brutality. Relationships between Black rebels and white colonists are marked by mistrust, betrayal, and moral ambiguity, revealing the impossibility of reconciliation within a system founded on oppression. Dialogue and monologue replace action, emphasizing language as a tool of domination and self-deception.