Karabo has survived the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi that claimed the lives of her father and sisters. Now she is left alone among the wounded hearts of Rwanda, and she doesn't know where her mother is. When Karabo goes to live with her paternal uncle, a colonel in the new army, she meets Shema, another genocide survivor and one of her uncle's young escorts. Shema's charm is appealing, and Karabo wants to surrender her heart...