In Apartheid Southern Africa, A Three-Year-Old Girl Named Koba Is Snatched From Her Kalahari Tribe After Witnessing Her Parents' Brutal Murder By White Farmers. The Orphaned Child Is Taken In By A Liberal White Woman Called Marta, And Finds Herself Trapped In A Terrifying New World. Years Later, Koba Learns "WHITE" Ways Alongside Marta's Son, Mannie, While Never Forgetting The Pull Of Her Own Desert People. One Weekend, A Passionate Love Affair Develops Between Mannie And Koba Which Questions Their Assumptions And Loyalties And Brings Down All The Force Of The Law Upon Them.