French-Jew Hélène Levine spent ten years searching for her daughter after her actions led to the arrest and subsequent death of her family in Auschwitz. Mad with guilt and grief, she decides to kill herself. Instead, she steals back a meaningful family heirloom, an antique silver teapot, and embarks on a quest for forgiveness from her sister in South Africa. In the meantime, Siphiwe, an independent minded Xhosa woman, risks arrest by working illegally without a “Pass”, a government document restricting the rights of black women.