The Story: As a professional interpreter, Nefert works at conferences where African's rulers meet not to solve the continent's problems, but to resolve to beg for solutions from past and present masters. She knows that under foreign occupation, Africa's abundant resources were pillaged in a raw export economy that pauperized Africans to enrich invaders. Nefert endures her depression in loneliness until she gets drawn into a circle of highly skilled friends looking, like her, for a key to African future.