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Unveils the two cataclysms that have devastated Eliette's life: first, the cyclone of 1928, when she was only eight years old, and now Hurricane Hugo, whose destruction shatters the elaborate defenses the old woman has built around the sorrows and madness of her life in the small, accursed town of Savane Mulet.

When Sybille arrives in Paris from Guadeloupe with her infant son, she encounters the extravagant and marvellous Lila. Sybille is young and black with her life still ahead of her, an ex-actress, Lila is white and seventy years old. Despite their differences, the women become inseparable. Haunted by memories, Lila confides in Sybille and, among other things, relates the endless cycle of lovers in her life.

A story of self-discovery, "Macadam Dreams speaks eloquently of the violence and poverty endured by the women of Guadeloupe. Viewed by many as a canonical author in the Creole movement in Francophone literature, Pineau has created an extraordinary work that is recognized as a masterpiece of French-Caribbean literature.