“I remember the forbidden back yard living quarters into which I often transgressed. My secret journey from our tiled and odourless kitchen into the enfolding smell of suurpap, lifebouy soap and bodies contained in that room.” This personal and evocative film is an eloquent testimony to the relationships that developed between young whites and their “other mothers” and the black children left behind, motherless, in the surrounding peri-urban townships and far-flung “homelands.”