Josette, 75, struggling with her loneliness in Yaoundé, has only one goal: to bring back her children who have gone to live in Europe. While trying to convince them to build a house in Cameroon, she meets Sarah, a young woman from her neighbourhood. The two women, of diametrically opposed personalities, become acquainted and gradually grow closer, becoming like mother and daughter. When Adrien, Sarah’s white boyfriend, leaves France for Yaoundé with the intention of marrying her, Josette takes this intrusion into her life badly. Secretly, she manages to scare Adrien away, and he disappears. After some research, Sarah discovers that it was, in fact, Josette who chased her lover away by revealing she is traditionally married. Betrayed, Sarah gathers her things and leaves Josette’s house. Devastated, Josette finds herself plunged into solitude once again, until the day she learns that her son Benoît has died from an illness he kept secret from her. All her other children return to Cameroon for the funeral, but faced with their Western chauvinism, Josette realises she no longer has much in common with her offspring.