A hypothetical near future, in the decade after 2020, and a marginal and disputed African territory at the southern edge of the Indian Ocean, called Muqumbiq by ancient Arab historians, see different paths and humanity intertwine: Valdo, in search of experiences ,or an identity of his own, beyond a childhood of abuse in Brazilian favelas and landing in Genoa as the adopted son of international entrepreneur Gianni Tempesti; Clara, an activist and leader of motivated and punctilious European cooperators; Kalahani, the new African-American leader of the most ideologized and militarily successful Islamist terrorism; John, a Ghanaian-born hacker and trusted man of the Tempesti household; and then Fatima, a young Christian girl from a village where the coexistence of all time comes under attack. All of them, peripherals and protagonists together.
 Their itineraries, individual and collective, come closer until they collide: armed conflicts, viruses, ancient cultures and faiths, together with new expressions and technologies, move history and outline, starting from a corner of the earth today perhaps forgotten, a possible reading to imagine a future.