Memoir of Clemantine Wamariya, who when she was six years old escaped with Claire, her fifteen-year-old sister, from the Rwandan massacre. She would spend the next six years hungry, abused, and traveling from camp to camp, until she and Claire were both granted refugee status in the U.S. There their lives diverged, and on the surface Clemantine seemed to be living the American dream, but underneath she had to struggle to re-invent her life on her terms and escape the painful memories of her past.