Film producer Xoliswa Sithole sets off on a deeply personal journey to interview young women who, like herself, have lost their mothers to AIDS. She meets an adolescent who fled her abusive stepfather after her mother’s death and now lives on the streets of a shantytown, exposing how HIV sufferers and their offspring are often stigmatised and abandoned by society. Next, she travels to the epicentre of the epidemic in KwaZulu-Natal, where families comprising only the very young and very old are typical. Here, a teenager has sacrificed her hopes and dreams to look after eight siblings, all surviving on their grandmother’s meagre pension. A terrible account of a lost generation robbed of parental guidance and emotional support by the killer disease.