A adult female single-handedly shoulder her household’s burden, without wages or thanks, to farm her hubby’s land and maintain the household fed and care for. She find herself train her girl to walk the same way she make. No school, all work. plague endanger her crop and are exterminate use a loan from the local woman’s cooperative. But when Manyusi waste her prized crop and scheme to get married off their girl, Fatuma must enlist the aid of her fellow lady at the cooperative to do things right.