Adunni is a fourteen-year-old Nigerian girl who knows what she wants : An education

As the only daughter of a broke father, she is a valubale commodity. removed from school and sold as a third wife to an old man, Adunni's life amounts to this : four goats, two bags of rice, some chickens and a new TV. When unspeakable tragedy swiftly strikes her new home, she is secretly sold as a domestic servant to a household in the wealthy enclaves of Lagos, where no one will talk about the strange disappearance of her predecessor, Rebecca. No one but Adunni...

As a yielding daughter, a subservient wife, and a powerless servant, Adunni is repeatedly told that she is nothing. But Adunni won't be silenced. She is determined to find her voice - in a whisper, in song, in broken English - until she can speak for herself, for the girls like Rebecca who came before, and for all the girls who will follow.