The extraordinary true story of a young man's epic journey in search of a better life after his family is torn apart by the war in Sudan. Aher Arop Bol is a boy of three or four when his uncle carries him from the bush into an Ethiopian refugee camp. This remarkable account tracks Bol's boyhood through one camp after another, until he begins a vast journey through Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi and Zimbabwe which ends in South Africa some ten years later.