The incredible true story of the young Masai woman who was the first girl from her rural community to seek a university degree in the US, and her mothers journey to witness her graduation.

Anna Ntaiya, a dryly pragmatic woman, said she was going to the United States for three reasons: to see the daughter she had borne at 17, to witness an educational triumph that far eclipsed anything ever achieved by a woman from Enoosaen – her daughter’s graduation, and to personally thank the many Americans who had made it possible.

For Ntaiya, 43, the trip to her daughter Kakenya’s graduation from Randolph-Macon Woman’s College in Lynchburg, Va., required months of deliberation and weeks of preparation and prayer. She had to leave her struggling farm and her six children still at home for more than two weeks. And she endured 60 hours of nearly nonstop travel from Enoosaen into what would seem like a different century altogether — from a culture where no one owns a refrigerator or a television to one where everyone seemed to have a cellphone and a car.

This was the path her eldest child had traveled more than four years earlier in pursuit of a degree from an American university. Now it was Ntaiya’s duty to travel the path as well.