Dior is a young woman from Dakar, the second daughter of a high personality in a Western institution. She leads an unstable life following a marriage with a man who sinks into drug consumption. Torn between a sentimental attachment and the desire to emancipate herself from a pitiful husband, she will over the years cling to broken promises which will lead her to the brink of suicide: promise of a happy life, promise to break up with drugs by her husband...
