Happy Valley is dismayed when the future chief's wife gives birth to a blond, green-eyed white boy, since old African wisdom says that a farmer who plants black beans, does not expect to harvest white beans. But the only white man for miles around is an old Catholic priest, too old to be the boy's father. Still he is not above suspicion, when gossip, intrigue and superstitions fly across Happy Valley threatening to derail the new chief's rise to the...