15-year-old Amandla's mother has always been strange. For starters, she's a white woman living in Sugar Town, one of South Africa's infamous shanty towns. She won't tell anyone about her past. And she has visions, including ones that promise the return of Amandla's father. But Amandla knows her father is long gone. He's just another mystery and missing piece of her mother's past and one of the many reasons people in Sugar Town give them strange looks-that and the fact that Amandla is Black and her mother is not. Lately her mother has been acting even more strangely, so Amandla decides it's finally time to get answers. As she confronts devastating family secrets and even the devil himself, she'll need her best friends at her side, if she hopes to help heal a pain that has lasted a generation.