An exploration of the notion of home through the coming of age of an Afro-European woman who arrives for the first time in Africa.

Talia is a 19-year-old Belgian girl, with Senegalese roots, visiting her country of origin for the first time. She starts off in Dakar, in the luxurious villa of her cousin's family, hoping to meet her grandmother. But her grandmother is nowhere to be found and the villa quickly becomes a "golden prison". Until she meets Malika, a mysterious bird street seller.