This 100-year saga begins with the adventures of a French safari guide who worked for the French Secret Services under de Gaulle. There are charging lions, night flights into war zones, spear hunters, and several murders. There are poachers and armed thieves who come in the night. There is moonlight and heartbreak and a Tanzanian wedding and bunches of roses and long separations punctuated by joyful reunions. Parts of the story, which is told in four parts, will be familiar to readers of Our House in Arusha and its sequel, An Irruption of Owls. In Part 2, an American travel writer meets the safari guide on a trip to the Serengeti, and together they try to make a life for themselves and the guide's eleven-year-old son. As the family moves from Africa to America and, finally, France, each opportunity comes with a price.