Badoe, Adwoa

Ken and Rama's nana comes to visit from Africa and bemoans the cold North American winter, but her attitude toward the weather undergoes a change when she comes down with the croup.

A powerful and suspenseful story told with uncompromising honesty, about what happens when youthful idealism meets the harsh realities of power.

Sixteen-year-old Gloria, who lives in poverty in Accra, dreams of becoming a dressmaker but has difficulty with school, and when a distant relative offers to pay for dressmaking school in exchange for Gloria looking after her son in Kumasi, Gloria accepts the offer and finds that life in Kumasi is full of temptations and distractions which she must struggle to overcome.