This is the story of Sandro Romano-Livi, a young Italian Jew, who leaves his Mediterranean island by boat for the Belgian Congo (DR Congo) in 1926 as a stowaway...of the first fifteen years of his adventurous life in Central Africa...of David-Kanza (aka Daviko), the mulatto son he adopts, a secret he will disclose to his white Anglican fiancée, Gloria Simpson, born and raised in Rhodesia (Zimbabwe)...of their two daughters, Astrid and Dalia...of his family's difficult situation and of their hopes...of the loss of his parents and baby sister, who were sent to a Nazi concentration camp...of his many travels in the African bush and his ultimate success as a businessman...of the family's departure to northern Italy, where they settle just before Central Africa's tragic events, whilst Sandro and Daviko remain in Africa for a longer period...of their love of the black continent and their incurable nostalgia...of Astrid's later humanitarian activities in Botswana and Malawi.