Northern Kenya.
In the early morning, as the sun rises, the African wilderness is silent, and amidst the vast grasslands stand ten stone-built isolated homes. For hundreds of miles, the only sign of life are these dozen families, standing out amidst the endless plains.
Among them is the stone house of Hornfeis's family, where his Southeast Asian wife, Maria, rises early to prepare breakfast for Hornfeis.
Maria comes from the Dutch East Indies colony (Indonesia), sold by the Dutch at a low price to the East African colony, where people were abundant.
In underdeveloped tropical regions, the people are very similar; women are much more industrious than men, and Maria is of this type, having grown up in a household where the mothers had to work to support the family.
Of course, Maria's father had three wives and more than ten children, all of whom had to work except for him.
