There is nothing Mrs. Zwinde wants more than a child. After years of fruitless attempts to have her own child, she and her husband adopt a little girl named Sihle. After tragedy strikes the Zwinde family, Sihle is forced to make the best out of unknown circumstances and make the best out of life. When she hears of a magical flower up the mountains that could cure her grandmotherβs blindness, Sihle ventures up to find the plant.