Born into African royalty, Thembeka Malope had her life story already written out by the time of her conception, but she had a chance to lead a normal life for a short while. She moved to New York where she went to school and to make sure that she would not think of her life as the princess Malope. She became Denise Alistair, a soft spoken advertising consultant. But when the chief summons her back home, she knows that her life is about to change.