April Alpha is no ordinary girl – or is she? All her life she has lived in the remote and desolate Skurweberge of the Cape. Now the police are hunting her as a criminal, the doctors see her as a strange creature to be studied, the journalists want to splash her story around the world. But Jaye, the young man who found her, keeps wondering if he has done the right thing in introducing her to his ‘civilised’ society. As his friendship with her grows, he begins to understand why she longs to return to her mountain home.