Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa, 2009. In a tiny hut on a deserted hill, Busi (20) is waking up. Her parents and her sister passed away, she has been  the head of the family for more than three years now. She was left behind with two younger siblings, the orphan child of her older sister and two children of yet another sister that has left for a better life in Mozambique. After years of extreme poverty, she now found a boyfriend who slips her some money now and then. Three nights of unprotected sex a week is what she is forced to give in return, knowing he sees other women as well. Since then her family can go to school. It’s a sacrifice she makes to give them a better chance in life.

In Kwa-Zulu Natal HIV infection numbers are amongst the highest worldwide. This is part of a documentary on the life in a community where traditional family care has fallen apart. How do neighbors, children, mothers and friends survive when almost an entire generation has vanished by HIV/AIDS?