A small white child lives with a Stone-age tribe, absorbing their culture and language. Then, as a teenager she is left alone in an alien country, where she struggles to understand a new culture, new civilization, and a boarding and to understand why she is now a misfit. Follow her journey as she struggles for emotional stability, with fear, with loneliness and with relationships. Witness the ultimate results of grace -- or, in other words, the glue of faith -- hope, and love at work throughout her life