It is a glimpse into the traditional Gikuyu way of life; into the making a country called Kenya. It is also a glimpse into the advent of evangelization in the colony. In the author’s words, it is a story centered on Andre and Guthera’s “epic love story and marriage, and how staunch faith saturated and imbued their whole beings, igniting them with zeal to pass it on, together with their children, to hundreds of their neighbours, children and adults, at time of great political upheavals in the country.”