Inge Boag and her family embark on a life filled with cultural and tribal mysteries when they intially make their home in West Africa in the mid 1960s. Monrovia, Liberia, the land of black faces, freed slaves, of gold and blood diamonds. Rituals, dance, masks and laughter, spirits, blood and witchcraft are the ingredients of daily existence. The revolution in 1980 triggers a series of events whose momentum catches Inge in its grip and forces her to make a tragic choice.