The school year is about to end and everybody is expecting the holidays. However, a terrible event happens and hits Meriting, an idyllic city in South Africa, like a bomb. The body of a dead young lady is found in a waste ground. Miss Diko, english teacher at the local high school and choirmaster assistant, very appreciated by all the students, has been brutally murdered. Miss Diko had been a beacon of hope for all the students since the World AIDS Day. The teenagers admired her more than ever for her courage, but her colleagues and leaders of the community didn’t, as they considered it to be a scandal and an attack to their traditional values. The searching for the murderer begins. Suspicion and speculation spread and everyone’s life will be different.

“…a moving story that evaluates the possibilities of fiction as it breaks the magnetic field of interpersonal relationships and moves forward through the vulnerable fields of empathy and identification with others, without being condescending or moralist (…). The southafrican multiple award winner author Jenny Robson unveils one of the worst tragedies lived in Africa that has social mutism, self-censorship and persecution of those affected by the AIDS virus as star players in this suggestive novel” (Boolino)

“…I liked a lot how the story is assembled and how it is told. It has been a truly joyful reading” (Pep Bruno - Por los caminos de la tierra oral).