The first leg of the trip is relived through the eyes of Ellie Darby, partner of England defender Matthew Upson. She is asked to work punishing 16-hour shifts in the babyhouse of Baphumelele Children's Home in the heart of Khayelitsha, one of South Africa's most dangerous townships. But it is when Ellie steps outside the children's home to visit a family of teenage girls orphaned by AIDS that she realises the scale of the social breakdown in the poorest parts of South Africa.