In 2019, an Italian art curator of Somali origin, is putting together an art exhibition that will combine Brown's paintings with the artwork of modern migrants to Italy. She becomes more and more obsessed with the life and secrets of the nineteenth-century artist, whilst also struggling to get her own young cousin into the country.
Weaving together these two vibrant voices, Igiaba Scego has written a powerful exploration of what it means to be "other", to be a woman, and particularly a Black woman, in a foreign country, yesterday and today