Fatou and Andrew wait for the rain to stop in the café, but as it continues to rain, they decide to leave and go to the train station together. Until then, they shared an umbrella. When Andrew insists that Fatou takes his umbrella, she refuses and puts on her bathing cap. As they leave, they kiss each other on the cheek.
With the Derawal family, Fatou hurries to prepare dinner and fetches the lamb from the freezer. While the family is watching TV, Fatou collects the laundry. Fatou thinks she is alone upstairs, but she notices someone slaps her on the back. First of all, Fatou doesn’t understand what Asma, the youngest child of the Derawals, wants from her. She quickly realises that Asma can’t breathe anymore and has therefore slapped her on the arm. Fatou makes Asma spit out the marble that she choking on and saves her life. Fatou accompanies Asma into the living room, where the rest of the family is watching TV. Fatou explains the situation, whereupon Mr. Derawal grumbles. Asma‘s brother portrays her as an idiot and her sister Julie is surprised that Fatou saved her life. Mr. Derawal thanks Fatou. His wife then asks her if the lamb is ready and Fatou admits that it is still frozen and looks after the laundry.
With the motto “To keep you is no benefit. To destroy you is no loss”, the Khmer Rouge criticises the townspeople, who are referred to as the “New People“. In contrast, the people in the countryside belonged to the “Old People“. Fatou, for example, was one of the “Old People“ who had previously practised agriculture.
On a Monday, Fatou goes back to the wellness center and passes the badminton players. During her swim, she remembers her past at the Carib Beach Resort. She remembers the old German men with beautiful local women. She also remembers large English women who liked the company of young boys. The girlfriends of the young boys worked as maids who also prostituted themselves to various guests. Although she was not a member of a church at that time, Fatou likes to remember the people who got baptized in the pool there. Just before Fatou left Accra, she was raped by a Russian man at the resort.
Chapter 15 recapitulates how Andrew and Fatou met first in Kilburn Park. Andrew explained to Fatou the religious inscriptions on the leaflet [dt.: Flugblatt] he gave her and then invited her to the Tunisian cafe. Fatou talks to Andrew about religion and tells him of her encounter with death when she saw nine children washed up dead from drowning at the hotel beach, and later witnessed the death of a boy in Rome. She comments that no one seemed to care about the children at the hotel, but many in Rome were horrified at the death of one Italian boy.
Another incident that caused Fatou to cry was in Rome when she found a costume, and empty wallet and an ID card with the name of Rajib Devanga in the bushes. It is implied that something terrible has happened to this man who must have been a street performer In February 2011, Fatou was baptised a Catholic, which filled her with joy for life. Her doubts, which arose over time, were able to be discussed with Andrew.
When Fatou came back to the Derawal’s house, she asked Mrs. Derawal about Asma. Mrs. Derawal plays down the matter and thinks there is too much drama about the swallowed marble. The conversation ends with Mrs. Derawal drawing attention to the shopping list.
Andrew and Fatou are sitting in the Tunisian cafe again when Andrew talks about Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge. He explains that wearers of glasses were killed because, according to the Khmer Rouge, they thought too much. The Khmer Rouge wanted to keep the people simple and wanted them to work and live in the countryside. Fatou explains that it is sometimes easier to live in the countryside, a life that Andrew admits, he has never experienced. Andrew calls the kind of political compulsion [dt.: Zwang] to force people to live in the countryside “Big Man Policy”. Fatou then says that she has never met a man who would not tell people what to do or not do. When Andrew asks her if this is true of him, she asks him if they want to go swimming together.
Andrew and Fatou go swimming together, while Andrew explains that he is a good badminton player. Fatou thinks he’s a dreamer, which is no bad characteristic in her opinion.
They both go to the wellness centre, where Andrew is not allowed to enter because he does not have a visitor’s ID. The receptionist eventually makes an exception. While Fatou is changing in the cabin, Andrew is already lying in a deck chair, where he waits for the moment when Fatou goes swimming. After Fatou invites him, Andrew also dares to go into the water. When Fatou realizes that Andrew is mainly diving instead of swimming, she understands that Andrew cannot swim and prefers to rest. Fatou asks Andrew if they want to go to the hot tub, Andrew says no, because he is just lucky to enjoy the time with her.
Fatou is dismissed by Mrs. Derawal arguing that the family needs a suitable domestic help and no longer needs a nanny. In a few days Mr. Derawal’s cousin moves in, so Fatou is not only dismissed, but also sent into homelessness. Mrs. Derawal reacts in an extremely irritated way towards Fatou’s request to receive her passport. Firstly Mrs. Derawal denies having Fatou’s passport, but Fatou receives it a few minutes later. When Fatou is greeted by Faizul Derawal on the way to the phone, she does not greet him. Fatou calls Andrew, who reassures her and promises her that he can find a job for her as a cleaning lady in his office. As she leaves, Fatou leaves her Oyster card, but she does take all of the guest passes for the wellness centre. Until Andrew picks up Fatou in four hours, she spends her time in the wellness centre. This time, Fatou ignores the receptionist’s kind greetings. Fatou describes a feeling of brightness and strength with which she leaves the wellness centre. She waits on the sidewalk while several buses and cars drive past her and watch her.