In the 1960s, a White enclave in Johannesburg, South Africa, was established. Molly Roth, 13 years old, is the daughter of socialist parents, and she is forced to piece together what is going on around her when her father goes missing one night, just escaping imprisonment, and her mother is jailed by the police not long after. A small number of Molly's White acquaintances turn against her, and the relationships between her family and Blacks take on new significance. In the apartheid era, relationships are extremely delicate. How is she going to cope?