Nick just got back home after spending three months at a therapy centre. He is determined to leave all the pain inflicted by his previous love behind. But after one night back, Nick goes out with his two friends and catch up in a local bar. Little he knows that across the room he will see love again, shyly smiling at him, trying to reach him with a sweet gaze.
Fiela Komoetie, a coloured woman living in the arid Karoo, finds a lost white child on her doorstep and takes him in, raising him as her own. Nine years later, Benjamin Komoetie is removed and forced to live in the Knysna Forest with Elias and Barta Van Rooyen, a family of woodcutters who claim that he is theirs. Separated by law and geography, they spend the next decade trying to find each other while simultaneously coming to terms with their individual identities.
