My mother sold my two brothers for R50,000 each to feed me, and I counted the money because her hands were shaking. Then a letter came: a white grandmother I never knew left me R3 Billion and a mansion on the cliff, but only if I tell the truth in court about my brothers. The court had no ramp, so the judge came to the street, my brothers came back speaking English, and my father, who ran because I was in a wheelchair returned with oranges. I built a library for disabled children and learned that forgiveness is heavier than R3 billion.

: "She painted trees from trash. He was a grieving American billionaire heir. When he wore his dead sister's t-shirt - the one SHE painted - fate brought them together in Port Elizabeth. But can she forgive the mother who abandoned her? A story of art, loss, and love from faith to faith."

this is a story about forbidden love between a Xhosa girl and an Afrikaans police man in South Africa, this love was a crime during the apartheid era. The story follows *Charity Ningi*, a poor girl born in 1960 in Woodlands village, eNqushwa, Eastern Cape, who becomes one of the most famous cooks for white elite families during Apartheid.