Soumaya Dramé abandons her job in England to go after her mother, Aurora, who, in the wake of a quarrel with her Senegalese father, Alassane, has fled to Senegal. Determined to track Aurora down before her depressed father does something foolish, Soumaya enlists the help of an oddly friendly photographer, Aziz. As they navigate a place she is from but not quite a part of, Soumaya meets her Senegalese relatives – and runs into a beautiful older woman who seems to be stalking her.
Set mostly in sunny Dakar, The Chameleon Girl is the story of a woman of dual identities confronting her parents’ past amid secrets, stereotypes and cross-cultural family tensions.