Classic television drama set in colonial east africa around the beginning of wwi'. '.strtoupper('e')leven year old elspeth grant holly aird arrives in africa with her parents tilly hayley mills and robin david robb, who are planning to build a coffee plantation, and is enthralled by the beauty of its landscape'. '.strtoupper('w')ith her parents busy at work, elspeth finds plenty of time to explore and soon makes a number of friends amongst the africans and the british settlers, bearing witness to both the natives' ancient tribal traditions and the scandalous intrigues of the colonials.