American Dianna Calloway is committed to helping children in war-torn Southern Sudan. Her passionate calling to help one small child learn to read is hampered by a fierce tribal leader, whom she suspects may be training children to fight. Her dilemma is complicated when she becomes ill, then with the chance meeting of a long-lost love. Dianna must make the most difficult choices in her life. Or must she? Because no one and nothing is as it seems.