Memory aid for African orphans. "Nothing has been as moving since the cave drawings of prehistoric people as these books from dying parents for their children." - Elke Heidenreich. "It has been two weeks since Aida showed me where she hid her mango plant, a few miles north of Kampala in Uganda." Aida's mother will soon die of AIDS. But Aida is planting a mango tree as a symbol of life. And from her mother, she receives a Memory Book. Henning Mankell traveled to Uganda to speak with AIDS patients and their families. Development workers assist parents in creating Memory Books for their children: memory books, small notebooks with pasted pictures and texts. Because what can children say about their parents if they were too young to remember them at the time of their death? How are young orphans supposed to learn who they are?.