Fardosa Ali is thirteen years old and live in the Korogocho slum, in the outskirts of Nairobi, Kenya. She lives alone with his father who is blind in one of the nearly 100 000 houses made of mud, earth and corrugated iron, which is characteristic of the slums here.

Fardosa has just reached the age when many Muslim girls in the area are married off, which is the case of her older sisters. Through the project KENGELE she has gotten the opportunity to continue her education. She wakes up at five o'clock every morning to get on the school bus to take her and some other fellows to the private school in the upper middle class area Buruburu, an hour's bus ride away.

Fardosa commute daily between two disparate worlds: the poor, notorious slum area where she lives, and the wealthier Buruburu where her classmates are competing on who has the hippest clothes.

Every Saturday after school, Fardosa and a bunch of other young people meets up to discuss issues affecting them in the slums; children's rights, the environment, right to education, etc. Fardosa and her friends have decided that the road to a decent existence is not by moving away from the slums, but by changing it...