Sierra Leone

After spending three years doing field installation work in West Africa Fred returns home to his old neighbourhood an industrial region on the outskirts of a major city He is filled with confidence and optimism for a new start He has brought home with him a pile of money that he made in Africa But he never wrote to his wife Rita He only wired her a money transfer every month In the meantime Rita has a new life that she now shares with a GI Fred rents a room in the Royal a sleazy hotel There he meets Alma who takes care of the rooms and the guests and who is being kept by her sugar daddy the aging hotel director A passionate encounter with his old girlfriend Vera who had high hopes for the two of them at some earlier time dissipates into a brief carnal episode