The Angolan civil war left one and a half million dead with an estimated four million more displaced over its twenty seven year duration. An entire generation grew up knowing nothing but conflict as the three rival factions raged against each other littering the countryside with landmines and massacring those who would not support them.

Many fled into neighbouring countries such as Zambia where over the years they settled in camps such as the Mayukwayukwa Refugee Settlement in Zambia's western province where they were allowed to work plots of land as subsistence farmers from where few seem interested in returning home.

Some 25,300 Angola refugees still live in Zambia many years after the end of the conflict (at its height 500,000 had fled abroad) despite efforts by Zambia's government to urge them to return home, understandable given Zambia's own levels of poverty and the fact that Zambia is also providing shelter to refugees from the Congo, Burundi, Rwanda, Somalia and Uganda. This video documentary tells the story of one girl who fled as a refugee to Zambia not knowing of the family she left behind.