Dior is a young Dakar woman, second daughter of a high personality in a Western institution. She leads an unstable life following a marriage to a man who sinks into drug use. Torn between a sentimental attachment and the desire to emancipate herself from a pitiful husband, over the years she will cling to broken promises, which will lead her to the verge of suicide: the promise of a happy life, promise to break with drugs by her husband ... One day, when she is leaving her weekly market, she meets Aidara, a young executive in the administration. A relationship of trust is established between them, an attachment to contempt for any moral and religious consideration. Dior opens the secret doors of his heart to him and cherishes the hope of realizing the dream of a happy life so longed for ...