The story is told from the perspective of an ordinary African girl, telling about the meeting of humanity with extraterrestrial intelligence. A meeting in which people find themselves powerless in the face of outside invasion and the seizure of more and more territories by aliens. But is this really an invasion? The military, dictating their will to the population, as always refuse to acknowledge the possibility of a solution to the problem other than quarantine and bombing.

But this plot, already described hundreds of times by science fiction writers, MacDonald turns inside out...