Teenage Nafisa was raised on her grandmother’s stories of battling British colonisers. Inspired by the Sudanese Cotton Queen fairytale, Nafisa sets out to save the cotton fields from a modern threat.
In a cotton-farming village in Sudan, teenage Nafisa was raised on her grandmother’s heroic stories of battling British colonisers. When a young Sudanese businessman introduces genetically modified seeds, Nafisa becomes the centre of a power play to determine the future of the village. Inspired by the Cotton Queen fairytale, Nafisa sets out to save the cotton fields—and herself.