When her parents get a divorce, Hope's world suddenly turns upside-down. She is forced to move with her mother back to the township, where she finds her uncle Oscar is no longer the fun guy she had always loved due to alcohol and drug addiction . A long bout of unemployment had crippled Oscar and, along with the depression that follows her mother, the new beginning that Hope was promised is all covered in dark clouds. And that's the least of her problems. People already look at Hope strangely because of the discoloration on her face caused by Vitiligo and starting a new school in the middle of the year with her rare skin condition really scares Hope.
Either the township will break Hope, or she finds a way to rise up and own her future. Deep down, the lost spirit of the rock, Imbokodo, rises within her, and what Hope does at her school creates a bright light in a hopeless world.