Book Description

A harrowing and heartbreaking story of a five-year-old girl abandoned by her family in the midst of apartheid. Marlene Neumann is sent to an orphanage hundreds of miles away from her home at the Northern border of South Africa. Here, she is subjected to all types of abuse. Despite all of this, she strives for survival in a world where she is rejected by those she recognizes as her own. As a young adult, she is drawn into the struggle against the unjust laws of her country, and eventually flees out of it with the man she loves. Or is it too late to escape from the South African Security Police?