This is a poignant story of love passion and ambition as a beautiful young woman, Africa Jones, strives to escape poverty by working and attending college to become a professional nurse. Her greatest fear is having to depend on a welfare check. Her widowed mother needs Africa's salary a a nurse's aide to help support her family of fie. Unexpectedly, Africa meets and falls in love with a handsome young physician, Kevin Hildenbrandt. Africa quickly learns the pain of family rejection. The ups and downs of this tumultuous love affair weave a story of trust and doubt, passion and disillusionment in a setting of both poverty and affluence. Candid revelations of medical and social factors surface as romance and aspiration are woven into this story with beauty and sprinkles of humor. Dreams and reality expressed are shared by many who will delight in this colorful love story.