As is the case with most African communities, fishing in the Bakiga culture of southwestern Uganda is strictly forbidden to women. But after the death of her fisherman husband, Grace, a young mother determined to give her child the life she never had, defies cultural traditions and launches an extraordinary bid to inherit her husband’s boat. Her defiance stuns the closely-knit community and turns her into an overnight pariah. But could she be the hope her village has so desperately been searching for?