After a wonderful seven weeks at Ainsley International School, twelve-year-old Caprice has been offered a full scholarship and should be delighted, but instead she is full of doubts because what happened at the last night dance has brought back the memory of being sexually abused by her uncle as a four-year-old. Worse, her maternal grandmother is ill, and that means going back to the house in Baltimore where it all happened. Caprice has never told anybody but now, as she realizes that her grandmother knew, she tries to find the words to tell someone, and the strength finally to confront her abuser.