Based on a Lesotho folktale about courageous women and girls, Nao and her husband, John, inherit a rescue farm in Upstate New York. Nao is four months pregnant and very homesick for her own family back in Lesotho. She hires a Lethuela, a traditional healer, to help her but…

• the woman is a fraud

• an ostrich gets killed 

• John breaks his ankle

• two creepy kids from a nearby farm show up

• and worst of all …

• their father is a racist monster: the Nanabolele.

 The monster / father poisons Nao so she miscarries and then he tries to kill her. 

Nao and the creepy girls join forces to defeat the girls’ racist father. No matter how the traditional story is told, the lesson is the same. A courageous woman will always beat the Nanabolele using her strength and wits.

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