Although Fictional, This Coming-Of-Age Novel Accurately Reflects a Massive Crisis of Identity Among Young Men in South Africa's Ghettoes. for Some of Them Nothing Has Changed, and Nelson Mandela's Dream of a Rainbow Nation of Opportunity is a Bitter Joke. Envisioning Another Kind of Life for These Kids, This Story Follows Ky, a Young Gang Member Who Gets Into Trouble and is Forced to Flee His Community and the People He Knows. Saved From Certain Death by a Stranger Who Reads His Dreams, Ky is Invited to Go Deep Into the Forbidding Mountains and Study With Zimry, a Bushman Shaman, Who Becomes a Mentor and Helps Ky Find His Calling.