Min afrikanske dagbog

9-year-old Hjalmar and his younger brother, Simon, have travelled to South Africa with their father. Hjalmar attends various schools and makes new friends. The country he meets is not the country of his dreams - there are no friendly bushmen waiting to welcome him, only a society in the midst of violent upheaval. Hjalmar befriends children who have lived half their lives under apartheid and the other half in a period with new-found liberalism, where everybody from beggar and president must find a path for the future. Racism is still very much an issue as Hjalmar discovers when he begins to question the motives of his African friends who have come to visit him at the great, imposing house where he lives.