Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa, 2009. In this rural area HIV raged to its full extent, infection numbers are amongst the highest worldwide. This is a documentary on the life in a community where traditional family care has fallen apart. In a region with very little industrialization, people are forced to work hundreds of kilometers away from home. Quite often they find a new life in the city and never return. If they do come home, they bring HIV. The virus has made an already weak society even weaker.

In 2007 only, 1.4 million South African children orphaned by AIDS. Many of them are extremely vulnerable; they are abused or abandoned and often end up in slavery or criminality. Dudu (29), orphan herself but now a self-confident woman with a family, is particularly concerned with their fate. She gathers the children after school and teaches them about rights and values. She is not afraid to discuss the sober reality. The children are offered a time and a place to ask for help and to help each other.

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