In an oppressive existence, humanity is an eternal struggle. The people of Zanzibar have battled everything their oppressors have given them, yet the Zanzibari unite in spite of the threat beyond. That threat is people giving strife and violence against their culture. The struggle will culminate after an interstellar political conspiracy, countless victims of of that conspiracy, and a shocking development because of the conspiracy. Those of the Zanzibari are determined as the planet's best hope, the Kalimba, a government of diverse and good people fight for the ONLY hope of human freedom on Zanzibar....and beyond.