Ester Lee's beautiful and touching story of post-colonial Africa highlights many conflicts we are all familiar with.First, the conflict between a mother, Dona Ermelinda, and her daughter, the author. Second, the pull of the 'mother' country and the rootless lives of the people who leave her.Set against the terrifying backdrop of Mogambique's Marxist revolution and its collapse, Dona Ermelinda's switch from a pampered imigri lifestyle to being a businesswoman in the new Africa is both inspiring and tragic. Yet she wins in the end.How she does is revealed in this fascinating documentary account, based on her diaries and told with love by her daughter.