An earthquake of emotions. The young woman of color, Benita, is a successful investment banker in London. A mysterious talisman compels her to finally search for the truth in her birth country, South Africa. Who killed her mother during the time of political persecution? Benita Steinach was adopted by the English Forrester family after experiencing a traumatic event in South Africa as a young girl: she witnessed her mother being tortured to death by henchmen of the apartheid regime. Since then, she has suffered from partial amnesia, until eighteen years later, she receives a mysterious package in London containing a small figure of a hippopotamus. The realization that this talisman can only have come from her mother triggers flash-like memories in Benita. A business trip to South Africa comes at just the right time.