YAO JOHANNES feels very loved and wanted, yet there is a most painful void in his life which no one is ready to help fill. Who among the bigger Johannes family is his mother? Why doesn't anybody want to talk about his father? These unanswered questions notwithstanding, Yao finds purpose in life and trains as a man of the cloth to serve mankind like his mentor, Father Willems. The whole community is agog with feverish preparations to enjoy the honour that a son of the soil is bringing to them. The excitement is short-lived however, when just before the ordination the carpet is rudely pulled out from under him. Would Yao ever know any happiness?
