Rachel's family lives in Kinshasa in a house overlooking the Congo River. The town sufferes violent looting by Zairian soldiers and, luckily, Rachel's family escapes their violence. Taking refuge at the French Embassy while awaiting for events to calm down, Rachel explores in the gardens of the Embassy, arises a new universe and new emotions. In the discovery of bodies, of hers as of others, of life and death, of sensuality and fragility, Rachel remembers.