She asked herself in the darkness of her cell, could she really see the light at the end of the tunnel, as it is normally said? Will she ever break free from the miseries of her life? Her thoughts wandered back into her life in reverse. She thought of home and all its troubles… Molested and impregnated by her uncle and stepfather at fourteen, banished from the village after losing her son, betrayed by a stranger, coerced into prostitution and narcotic trading, Nokhanya serves a death sentence at a remote Asian prison where her identity is questionable to the prison system.