Recently widowed Sarah Laforge arrives in Zaire to take up her new post at the U.S. Embassy determined to find meaningful work. The year is 1989 and the expatriate Europeans and Americans Sarah encounters in Kinshasa live in a privileged world where they drink flirt and gossip about who is sleeping with whom. But throughout all of this petty activity important business is getting done. Information is being gathered. Big power plays are being made. Jacques Delpech a Belgian businessman born and r