During a vacation in Bordeaux, Lili, 4, and her brothers, aged 9 and 20, find themselves left to their own devices when their flamboyant mother returns without them to Gabon to run her restaurant- discotheque. Torn between the desire to return to her lost paradise and the duty to take her "chance" while making her mother proud, Lili will grow up, use all the strategies to survive, succeed and find the lights of her native Africa.