SAMANTHA is the only daughter in the family of Mr&Mrs Mandai she has two brothers(kim&mike).her parents divorced when she was five and this make her to be raised by one parent(mother),after the divorce her mother decide to leave the city.Samantha and her mother move to Kilwa and left her father at kilimanjaro.
Samantha's mom is now at kilwa her life was not real bad and not good at all because in her life she depends only on her husband salary and now they ain't together so she finds hard time for taking care her baby Samantha, she decide to go and join the people working at the sea island so as to get food and there she spends a lot of time in working and not getting enough money earn living and also not getting enough time to spend with her baby, therefore her life become more worse.
After a year Mrs Mandai now is employed at the restaurant(MGAHAWA in swahili) so now she has place to live and now Samantha is 6 Yrs old ready to go to school.