This is a story of a family torn apart by the ravages of youth. Tumsifu is a young university student full of promise of a bright future. She falls in love with a foreigner who promises a better life for her, takes her out of school and into a foreign country flowing with milk and honey, or so she thinks. There, she is turned into a sex plaything for her boyfriend, his friends and clients. Coming to terms with the reality, she hatches a plot to break the chains of slavery. She records all the events and occurrences in her lifesaving diary, which she mails back home upon her escape from captivity.
The play revolves around the theme of human trafficking and it plays around her entries in her diary, which her father constantly refers to in his mourning. It looks at the role that each of us should play in the society, youths in pursuit of education and honest work and adults in upholding wisdom, paid for in gray hair.
In her death she leaves us with the adage that all that glitters is not gold. Exposed too in the play are the faces of the underworld dealings: Internet sites; tours and travel; promise of good life abroad, so youths, be warned.
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