It is 1953 when Kilian leaves the mountains of Huesca to embark on a journey to Fernando Poo, a former Spanish colony in Equatorial Guinea, with his brother. Their father awaits them there at the Sampaka estate, where he cultivates one of the finest cocoa beans in the world. In the colony, they will discover that social life is more pleasurable than in the rigid and gray Spain. They will experience the contrasts between colonizers and natives and learn the meaning of friendship, passion, love, and hatred.