While Julie (Marie Matheron), a French doctor in charge of a humanitarian organization, is working in Addis Ababa, Anton (Tim Roth), his friend writer, finds herself in Ethiopia in the city of Harar. He meets Zeleka, guardian of an ancestral vengeance. He settles with Yssa, the little girl of Zeleka (Negana Kelaki). Guided by the will of the old woman, he pursues a quest hallucinated for the poet Rimbaud.