The story of a young Southeast Asian girl''s life with her eccentric "blended" family in Lesotho, and her search for the truth about her absent father, is a parable for the country''s own quest for freedom and maturity. Red Dust, Red Sky is set in southern Africa during the time of official apartheid. A family originally from India lives in exile in the mountainous kingdom of Lesotho, a tiny country entirely surrounded by South Africa itself.