The new novel by the "most unusual writer in France" is described by the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung in concise and precise terms: It is "about three completely different women who refuse to be defeated by life's difficulties and will not allow themselves to be humiliated by others." Forty-year-old Norah gives in to her father's urging and visits him in Dakar: The lawyer is supposed to retrieve her brother from prison. The difficult meeting with her father drives the woman to the brink of madness. Unlike Norah, Fanta has left Dakar to follow her husband Rudy to the French countryside. She seems to give up out of boredom there, or so Rudy thinks, through whose perspective we learn about Fanta, yet he misses something crucial. Viewed from Africa, her existence appears almost luxurious and desirable, which is why Khady.