Every year thousands of Zimbabwean children, some as young as ten, leave their homes and try to cross the border into South Africa alone. The film follows their journey through the bush near Beitbridge, where smugglers known as malaishas guide groups past border patrols and into a country that offers no legal status and no guarantee of safety. Interviews with the children themselves lay out what pushes them to go: collapsed schools, absent parents lost to migration or AIDS, and a economy at home that leaves no path forward. On the South African side, some find relatives or informal work; others end up on the street, exploited by adults who see an unaccompanied child as easy prey. Aid workers and border officials describe a system unable to track or protect the numbers involved. The film does not resolve the crisis, it documents it in progress, following individual children whose decision to leave home was made with no adult's permission and no clear plan for what comes after.