One day Olivia Karemera's life was divided into ‘before’ and ‘after’. Memory brings Olivia back time and time again to the year when the hatred nurtured over the years spilled out onto the streets in her homeland, the African nation of Rwanda. To live in the present, Olivia must face her past in the pages of her personal diary... and in life when a new girl arrives at the boarding house in Canada. The story tells that the world is not black and white, that there are so many other different colours in it, and you have to learn to accept people with different beliefs. It teaches you how to cope with moments of acute distress. Olivia has PTSD and loneliness after everything that has happened to her. She's lost her parents and her home, faces school bullying in a new country. Still, it's not so much about trauma as it is about the journey to healing. It's a book about hope, about the fact that the connection to your country, to your people, to their history is unbreakable, and it makes you so strong that you can handle anything.