As Kirabo enters her teens, questions begin to grow at her- questions which adults in her life will do anything to ignore. Where is the mother she never known? And why would she choose to leave her daughter behind? Inquisitive, headstrong, and unwilling to take no for an answer, Kirabo sets out to find the truth for herself. 
 
Her search will take her away from the safety of her prosperous Ugandan family, plunging her into a very different world of magic, tradition and the haunting legend of The first Woman