We are aboard a cruise boat on a river in Africa. The passengers are the ones we imagine: the narrator, filmmaker tracking, Louis, an African who has an elegant romantic disappointment, Naginpaul English writer and obese drunkard, Livia Eleonora and sisters one of which is accompanied by her little boy, Mary, and his companion seriously ill and elderly, tourists American, one French arrogant ... and then the crew Aboriginal commander intimidated by the passengers and his second suspicious ... All these people embarked for a cruise on the old boat of the Belle Epoque:
... this map of the river in the twenties, framed in the wainscoting, captioned ROAD COUNTERTOPS, with its stream past the pretty blue vertical wave curled, and his naive medallions representing a crenellated here, there a stork in flight, there a small black man with canoe along the river towns that were piled from the mouth of Mattopara, lined up from bottom to top: Batongo, Diaguilé, Oumsara, Sassi, simple illustration of the time when trade flourished even gum arabic, millet, oil, rice, ivory, gold dust, without forgetting the past the famous "ebony". p.26
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