As a child, Kate Ashby was rescued from the horrific aftermath of the Rwandan genocide and brought to the UK. But the tragic shadow of her past proves impossible to escape.

An American volunteer teaching in a school in Africa must save one of his students, a 14 year old girl from religious slavery.

What price must a man pay to provide education? What sacrifice must a man make to bring enlightenment to his community when the people he fights for are bent on continuing with their way of life?

Effe, is a pretty young woman who prefers dating much older, and usually married men. Effe leaves her home to escape her mother’s criticism of her behavior and stays with her friend’s family. While at her friend Kate’s house, Effe has an affair with Kate’s father as well and ruins the dynamics of that family

Kwesi Aboagye, under intense pressure to get settled in marriage, meets Amina, who has ran away from an Alhaji, to whom she is betrothed. Amina's mother is furious, but Aboagye does all he can to win Amina's love despite all the impediments put in their way.

This is a story of two teenage love birds, who defied parental counsel and chose to live their lives as they saw fit. It is a story of youthful exuberance and experimentation with adult lifestyle between young people that ends them in trouble.