The story follows three cousins, Emilia Rose, Isla Mae and Audrey Jane, who use their dream lives to explore and experience Southern Africa. Along the way they get some help from a friendly fever tree, witness some wised-up weaver birds, march along with the ambulatory ants, avoid a grumpy puff adder, find an irritable and scruffy secretary bird, discover a brawny dung beetle, are overtaken by a speedy shongololo, meet a cranky legs daddy long-legs...