The village of Ireli is marked by the bitter seal of drought. In the marshes where the gods have kept water, the men have brought the soil that will feed the community for many months. The power to make it rain is held by a fetish belonging to the family of Amadimé, a young boy of around twelve years old, who is offered enough by a stranger to buy many of the things his family lacks. He accepts. After all, you can always carve a new fetish… Yes, but if he were less powerful, he would never be forgiven for selling the rain. Too late, the stranger has left with the fetish. Amadimé realises he no longer belongs in the village. Only the big city will allow him to forget his sin… At least that’s what he thinks when he discovers this enchanting unknown world, where there is an abundance he can scarcely believe is real. Nightfall brings him back to reality. The fugitive and guilty child, alone with himself, misses his home and worries about the future.