The story reveals the life of a family with ten children moving from a Portuguese island were life was peaceful and danger free to Africa and face an unknown culture full of hardship and starvation. Mom and Dad's courage to keep going and looking for something better, but there were times when better was a luchury and settling for just a way to survive and raise their children were sometimes the only option, moving from place to place facing the danger of the unknown and the means to survive.