She is researching a story on a home for children dying of AIDS in Soweto, Johannesburg�s twin city populated solely by blacks. She sets out to return home, but when stopped at an intersection, she is pulled from her vehicle by a carjacker and shot. When she regains consciousness a week later, she is horrified to discover that she has been brought to a black hospital. The course of the bullet through her body did serious damage; a full recovery is in doubt. Moving her to a white hospital would be too risky. The fact that she is alive at all is remarkable; Monica cannot help believing that her life was spared because God has a plan for her