Life in Zambia in the nineties
The 90s in Zimbabwe - a new government that doesn't change things for the better, droughts that effect poor harvests, AIDS, the new illness which affects the population as men can have several wives and thus spread it easily, in addition, poor girls in the city prostitute themselves. And in all this, the orphaned and widowed Nasula who never attended school, tries to get the money needed for her only daughter (Sula) to go on to secondary school. A difficult task to undertake. Will she manage in the end? In this novel we learn a lot about life in Sambia.