Myrna is a scrawny brown skinned girl with curly hair, living carefree in South Africa when she, at the age of 8, discovers that she is Coloured. Her family has relocated from a farm in Natal to the Transvaal province when she first experiences race turmoil. She recognises the hate that brews in the hearts and minds of the Coloured people in the township where she lives and starts to understand what it means to be a product of the White man's Apartheid plan. Apartheid - once famously described as "good neighbourliness" As she grows older, she realises what it means to be Coloured in Apartheid times. She realises that even "normal" people can be forced into the struggle. Armed or otherwise She experiences hate, fear, triumph and the ultimate freedom of a Democratic South Africa.