This novel is set in the West African country of Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast). Its tale is about a young Ivoirienne woman of mixed Senoufo and French ethnicities, suffering alienation in Cote d'Ivoire's quasi-Western city of Abidjan, though retaining some of her Senoufo traditions, along with religious and family orientated values. Her love story involving a visiting businessman from Germany is interlaced with travels to several Ivoirian sites, thereby providing the reader with an introduction to exotic Cote d'Ivoire.