Amy, a young mixed-race woman, travels to Bobo,  Burkina to reconnect with her mother whom she was  separated from at the age of eight. She discovers  only her aunt living in the family home, fi nds the  courtyard of her childhood both comforting and unsettling. She feels a stranger in a city where she has  no bearings.

For years now, Mariam, a Burkina housecleaner in  Paris, has lived as a furtive shadow on the margins  of society.