On the day she is born, Alana Pennyfarthing is left at the doorstep of an orphanage with a written note: "This child is no longer wanted." Years later her daughter Amelia Gruber, an underachieving recluse, finds herself struggling to navigate the dilemma's of being a 'poor White' in 20th Century Rhodesia and befriending a middle class black Lawyer Peter Mudondo. In the confusion of coming of age, finding her feet and trying to empathise with Peters...