Meggie Jepchumba, a physician from Kenya, comes to Saguaro State University for graduate training.
She fights the myths about Africa, helping others understand African culture's positive aspects and correct the myths that portray Africa as a disease-ridden, poverty-stricken, and corrupt shit-hole country.
She meets Liam, an American physician, and they fall in love.
The course of their relationship snags when a family friend of Liam's, Isabel, seduces Liam and tries to thwart the relationsh.