Frightened that their baby sister Dineo will die thirteen-year-old Naledi and her younger brother Tiro run away from their grandmother to Johannesburg to find their mother who works there as a maid. Their journey illustrates at every turn the grim realities of apartheid - the pass laws bantustans racism the breakdown of family life.The opulence of the white Madams house contrasts starkly with the reality that Naledi and Tiro face - that their baby sister is suffering from starvation not an incurable disease.
