Nhamo is a virtual slave in her african village in 1981. Before her twelfth birthday, nhamo runs away to escape marriage to a cruel husband, and spends a year going from zimbabwe to mozambique. Alone on the river in a st...Nhamo is a virtual slave in her african village in 1981. Before her twelfth birthday, nhamo runs away to escape marriage to a cruel husband, and spends a year going from zimbabwe to mozambique. Alone on the river in a stolen boat, swept into the uncharted heart of a great lake, she battles drowning, starvation, wild animals.