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Focusing on the challenges within the legal system, the story follows a determined young lawyer representing an assaulted teenager. She confronts devious adversaries and an untrustworthy judge while striving for justice. The narrative serves as a critical examination of legal shortcomings, all set against the vibrant backdrop of everyday life in Botswana, highlighting the cultural nuances and realities of the region.

The Botswanan childhood of Monei Ntuka is shaped by stories from her mother, father, and grandmother as well as from the colonizers and the Christian church in this novel about the tensions between modernization and tradition in postcolonial Africa.

When a twelve-year-old girl goes missing near her village, the local police tell her mother and the villagers that she has been taken by a wild animal. Five years later, a young government employee finds a box containing evidence of human involvement in the affair.