Eva von Rensberg, half English and half-Afrikaan, grew up unhappily on a Skinner’s Drift, a farm in South Africa during the severe political unrest of a post-Apartheid atmosphere. Now it’s ten years, and Eva’s made her escape to New York City only to find she has to return to the place of her childhood to take care of her estranged dying father and sell the farm. Her revisit, however, begins to unearth long buried memories, especially when she finds the diaries of her late mother Lorraine and is forced to go back in time and relive her troubled past and face her father’s terrible secret.

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