After her very wealthy and renowned parents are brutally murdered, five year old Anna McCrystal is left homeless and orphaned. Escaping with her from the war-torn capital city to Grand Cape Mount, a faraway western region, her determined maid will remain there with her for the next five years. When news reached Cape Mount that the peacekeepers, ECOMOG had finally secure Monrovia, the maid takes Anna and returns to the city. But this is a miscalculation...