Sana's mother is going to write and publish a book about their life. Sana can't stop thinking about the book, and the things that make her nervous about it. Only Akito seems to see through Sana's happy facade to know that something is wrong.

It’s early afternoon, May 1, 1955 — and Donald McWilliams finds himself with other British soldiers in Ndyeia Gorge in central Kenya. At their feet a Mau Mau fighter lies dying, mortally wounded by their gunfire. Above them all, the vast skies of the Rift Valley. McWilliams is hardly out of his teens — a child of wartime London, stationed to Kenya for his national service. Raised on the romance of Empire, he’d imagined a great African adventure....

Un joven escritor debe escribir las memorias de un reconocido novelista, Joaquín Góñez, y lo que comienza como un simple trabajo se convierte en un reto personal, cuando para comprender las miserias de su personaje debe revolverle sus emociones. Joaquín se reencuentra con su pasado, viejos amigos y emores, pero entre todos sus recuerdos, la intensidad de uno, el de su madre Roma, revive para devolverle esa pasión por la vida que creía perdida. Manuel...