It wasn't until that horrendous night that things changed. The night when her whole self changed. A night she wouldn't forgive and forget. A night that supposedly proved her wrong about her people and the natives. It was a night that changed her reasoning. A night that almost erased her childhood. A night that almost erased the memory of life from her streams of consciousness. A night that extinguished all forms of hope and determination she had for posterity...
After witnessing the atrocious murder of her parents, brother, and husband by someone from her past and weary of living in a polarised state, a desolate Maria van Niekerk goes into self-imposed exile. She emigrates from South Africa and immigrates to Australia to turn over a new leaf and find convalescence and solace from her grief.